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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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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