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"Describe the bread your family ate. The smell, the shape, who baked it."

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Maria du Toit

Karoo · b. 1934

AF

The bread was round, crusty outside and soft inside. My grandmother baked it every Friday in the outdoor oven. The whole yard smelled wonderful.
Jan Botha

Western Cape · b. 1936

AF

The bread was made from wheat my father ground himself. Dark, strong, with salt. We ate it with butter and jam — every day the smell was the same.