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During a recent trip to Europe, I was mildly alarmed to find no serving tongs in the breadbasket on my hotel's breakfast-buffet table: the only way to pick up a croissant was with my fingers.

South Africa, the breadbasket of the region on which many southern African countries depend for food imports in times of drought, this week issued a preliminary forecast of maize production for the coming harvest of 7.4 million tonnes, a drop of 25% from the already poor production levels of last season and 36% below the five-year average.

It means saying no to a plan to pipe this crude -- some of the dirtiest oil on the planet - through the breadbasket of America so it can be refined on our Gulf Coast and shipped overseas.

The Spartans and their allies looked west to Sicily but the Athenians increasingly relied on access to the breadbasket of Pontus (modern Ukraine).

The town was a way station on the route from the breadbasket of the Houran in southern Syria to Acre, the Levant's greatest port on the coast of Palestine.

"Mosul is known as the breadbasket of Iraq," said Abdul Satar al-Gulami, one of the landowners.

Jesse Jackson, once an associate of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the head of Chicago's Operation Breadbasket, sat on the stoop of a Sesame Street brownstone.

For instance, not once on his trip through the San Joaquin Valley, the breadbasket of California, did Mr. Schwarzenegger mention the word "agriculture".

There is no farmhouse on this smallholding, the only 100% organic farm in Pedro Plains, on the south of the island, known as "the breadbasket of Jamaica".

Formerly known as the breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe has suffered perennial shortages in recent years and has relied on importing grain from neighbouring countries to meet its needs.

A gigantic breadbasket, of course.