That's why restaurants that insist on clearing the bread and butter plates early in the meal are beyond annoying.
Riou ordered the stores, guns and livestock to be thrown overboard in an attempt to lighten the ship, but was injured when his hand was crushed by a falling cask while trying to clear the bread-room.
From Apicius onwards, french toast recipes have made clear that the bread should be fine (ie soft) and white; medieval recipes tend to call for manchet – the paler, lighter loaf that was a great status symbol at a time when the common herd subsisted on bread coarse enough to break a tooth on.
Thus, followers of Atkins method could gorge themselves on bacon, cheese and eggsjust as long as they steered clear of the bread basket.
It helped introduce Spaniards to sliced loaves and pioneered the packaging of bread in clear cellophane.
But when a classmate was assigned to follow their instructions as literally as possible, it became clear that removing the bread from its bag was an important, forgotten step.
Clear, dry weather enhances the bread; "humidity kills good bread".
It was nearly 5 p.m. before the final pieces of naan bread were cleared away, and our hosts decided it was too late to head on to Gandamak.
"If we remain focused and clear on middle-class bread-and-butter issues, we win the broader public argument because the other side has no solutions on this," one senior House Democrat quoted the president as saying.
