A sweating fat guy we'aring a stained white apron came out of a place called La Fiesta holding armfuls of bread wrapped in plastic.

Starters include toasted bread wrapped with ham and Italian goat's milk cheese served with mesclun salad, fresh pears and truffle oil; asparagus and smoked prosciutto baked with fontina cheese; and country tomato and bread soup.

Officials said they had been watching Mr. Arnold particularly carefully because he had spoken about escaping, and in November a woman tried to smuggle a knife to him inside a loaf of bread wrapped in foil.

You could perhaps introduce the occasional hot item such as garlic bread, wrapped in tinfoil, to complement the salad, and hot fudge sauce to pour over an ice cream dessert.

He clenched half a loaf of bread wrapped in a scrap of cloth against his chest.

Next morning, the owner, Rosanne Boyett, arrived with a basket of various warm breads wrapped in tea towels; she bakes something different each day.

Salted bread wrapped in a white cloth would appease this spirit, and putting clean white linen in his room was an invitation to eat a meal with the family.

When she left with her bread wrapped in newspaper and her buttocks swinging and jostling each other beneath the yellow European-style skirt, Raleigh returned to his desk in the cubicle of his office and sat for a long time staring at the wall.

Ged rummaged about inside it a moment and came back with something: a packet of hard bread, well wrapped to keep dry.