Puds are less seasonal, and the ubiquitous sticky date pudding comes as a miniature Hovis-like loaf (£5) glazed with sweet butterscotch sauce.
(One minor detail that I find particularly striking is the patriarch's use of a knife that would have to be razor-sharp to cut fine, thin slices off a boulder-like loaf of bread).
In addition to superb wood-fired breads, including a tongue-shaped lavash-like loaf served with whipped walnut-raisin butter, there is a selection of "roasts," including an exceptionally crusty cube of braised short rib, topped with horseradish and julienned beets.
One recent morning in the Cairo slum of Imbaba, people crammed in front of a weathered green bakery shack for their daily rations of subsidized bread, a pita-like loaf called baladi that sells for less than a penny, so cheap that some Egyptians feed it to their livestock.
But the finest dish I ate in Sylhet was at the modest Jallalabad Restaurant, where I sampled white pumpkin curry, scooping up sweet squash with wedges of bannock-like loaves of bread, all for less than 70p.
When he had the chance he liked to loaf and tell stories, play with his children and grandchildren.
If you'd like a loaf to take home, K&V Bake has beautiful sourdough and ancient grains batards for sale at their Dinosaur pop-ups.
Using the internet to sell herself as an artist and a brand, Nandi makes t-shirts donning selfies her Instagram, or hyperbolic slogans like, "Nandi Loaf is Fashion".
True, most days I don't feel like having coffee, (oranges have been my craving lately) but I like to loaf around Starbucks with a latte, just like anyone else.
Then his fingers "began to swell like loaves of bread".
Like loaves of bread, magazines are best if consumed before a certain date.
