Tourists in the know use the channel to place orders for fresh bread from baker Vivian Rolle or to make dinner reservations at the Yacht Club, the only restaurant that's consistently open.

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An economy is about commerce and trade and me buying bread from the baker who buys meat from the butcher who buys candlesticks, blah, blah, blah.

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However, as every baker knows, bread baking is something of an organic science.

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Or for anybody who wants to buy bread baked by a local baker, instead of frozen at a factory in South Bend Indiana and heated up later.

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When you hear that the man in the photo is a baker, that fact gets embedded in a whole network of ideas about what it means to be a baker: He cooks bread, he wears a big white hat, he smells good when he comes home from work.

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For example, a baker might pay five cents VAT on flour and collect 25 cents VAT on the bread he sells, remitting 20 cents to the government.

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