Gafhi Bread

The Gafhi eat every meal with a special bread that they bake out of the seeds of the mountain grass. Made with just the flour of the mountain grass seeds and water, the gafhi bread is slightly sour and flat, pancake-like. In some cases, similar bread is made from other seeds, or the flour is made from mixed grains. However, this is generally considered inauthentic by the Gafhi.

The bread is the subject of many superstitions and customs, from the insistence of making it from the mountain grass, to the tradition that the bread is only to be touched with the right hand. The base of any Gafhi meal, The Gafhi eat by taking the bread and covering it with a stew or any other supplement they've been able to produce.

The bread can sometimes be eaten on its own, but more commonly it is either used as a plate or pieces are torn off to soak the pieces of bread with some other food. The spongy and pancake-like texture of the bread allows the flavors to soak into the bread and become trapped. Thus, leftover bread is eaten after the stew is finished.

Though the bread is crucial to Gafhi dining customs, the average Gafhi subsists on much more than just the bread. The goat's milk and meat are also ubiquitous foods for the Gafhi, and the Gafhi are canny survivors, hunting and scavenging for whatever they can find in their hills and mountain forests, from root vegetables to mushrooms. Nevertheless, these things are almost always eaten with the bread, at least if the occasion is a communal Gafhi meal.

The Gafhi word for bread refers specifically to the bread made from the seeds of mountain grass. For any other bread, they use a word borrowed from the Thaner.