The bread was hard and unleavened, the way the Jews make it, Pereda thought, remembering his Jewish wife with a touch of nostalgia.

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Bread is often hard to find.

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The hero is the (unnamed) human-resources manager of a major Jerusalem company, a bakery that has flourished by victualling the Israeli army and trucking extra supplies of bread to the West Bank when times are so hard that Palestinians can afford little else and their local bakeries have been closed on suspicion of being a security risk.

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Cured in marble basins with salt to draw out water and protect against bacterial growth (herbs such as anise were added for flavor), they were put on bread and eaten as a rich source of energy for a day of hard labor.

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That evening it rained very hard but Pelkey and Papa were snug in a bistro, with a bottle of wine and some cheese and bread, looking down on Paris.

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