"He forgot to pass the bread around, he got the people he wanted to sit next to him and never bothered with anyone else, he never helped — and then he'd disappear and someone would say 'Where's Bruce?' and he'd gone to write".
The box is pasta (and maybe bread crumbs, but if you have stale bread around, so much the better), the jars are capers and oil, and the can is sardines.
How right he is; I have never been able to understand the point of that sodden toast … Try serving poached eggs on fresh, buttered bread; alternatively on a purée of some kind – split peas, sweetcorn or mushrooms, with pieces of fried bread around, but not under, the egg.
On one of Alpert's visits, there isn't quite enough bread to go around, but in later years the bread factory itself has crumbled when he walks the same city block.
The company also produces a rich brioche and one of the best caraway seed rye breads around, a pointed oval loaf with a crisp, sturdy crust.
Cut wedges of bread to fit around sides of bowl, leaving no gaps.
It even puffs the roti, allowing you to either roll the bread around a filling, or, pita-style, place things inside it.
Move the piece of bread around to make sure the side is coated.
Silverton says the first time she really realized the magnitude of how big a hit they had on their hands was the Thanksgiving of 1990, when the line to buy bread stretched around the block and partway down Sixth Street.
(Erica Eggplant's deep, dark secret: "I like to roll around in bread crumbs").
