The kitchen is still black with smoke and contains the original bread oven and soup hearth.

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It has the consistency of a very thick soup and is scooped up with hot pita bread, raw onion and pickled cucumbers.

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Then we had two kinds of soup, both built around shrimp and accompanied by flat bread called totopo.

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Lunch was a single piece of bread, and dinner was a small serving of rice, lentil soup and occasionally vegetables.

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He received three unpalatable meals a day usually a sandwich of bread and cheese, or cold rice with canned vegetables, or soup.

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Miss Morse said various pieces of food had been scattered around the hallway, including bread and a broken plate and upturned bowl, and splashes of green soup on the walls and on Mr Suddards's body.

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The thick, creamy soup was served in espresso cups topped with tiny cubes of bread that had been sauteed with sage leaves that turn crispy as they impart their sharp flavor to the butter and tiny croutons.

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In the past, he would typically consume a salad, a bowl of onion soup, a 14-ounce rib-eye steak with french fries, vegetables, bread and butter and a dessert--all washed down with diet Coke.

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