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A few minutes later, Ahmed moves aside the embers which cover the pastry. Doudou is open-mouthed :
“ Wow ! It’s amazing ! exclaims Doudou. But the bread has been cooked in the sand ! It might be full of grains that will break our teeth.

- Not at all, answers Ahmed. Since I have smashed the dough before cooking it, you just have to scratch a little, to tap the bread’s crust, and all the grains of sand will fall…
- Bravo Ahmed ! You are the bread baker of the desert ! ”

© JiCé SOWA & Valérie CHERY - Décembre 2008

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