Mind you, I still enjoy prowling open-air vegetable markets and old-fashioned butchers and bakers wherever I go.

There tired and overwrought businessmen can enjoy such old fashioned fare as bread and butter pudding, all served by well-developed girls wearing school uniforms.

These days, archaeological excavations employ teams of laborers, many of whom live near the necropolis in villages like Qurna, where bread takes shape the old-fashioned way.