Afghan bread, the humble centrepiece of every meal

The common bread Ghafori has made for 27 years is fluffy with a satisfying crunchy edge, where each piece has been slapped onto the wall of an earthen oven sunk into the floor. Afghans rely on bread, he told AFP. So he and his colleagues, each in charge of one part of the five-step process, take pride in their work. "We always try to provide good bread for people, our customers must be satisfied," he said in the north of the Afghan capital. Piles of bread -- some round, some stretched into canoe-like shapes...