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By Gemma Handy\/BBC:<\/strong> Dawn has barely broken, and Alton’s bakery in a side street on the outskirts of Antigua’s capital is already abuzz with activity.<\/p>

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A baker is using a long plank to place loaves into a vast wood-fired oven. Someone else has the task of wiping the ashes off the bread when it comes out, filling the room with its comforting aroma.<\/p>\n

In an adjacent room, two men are deftly shaping dough by hand into buns ready for the next batch.<\/p>

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Before the morning is out they will have made several hundred of these, to be sold in tiny family-run stores island-wide, or as breakfast for the hungry customers milling in and out, clutching still-warm loaves wrapped in brown paper.<\/p>

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Outside in the distance, a behemoth cruise ship looms, incongruous amid this tableau of simple wooden homes.<\/p>\n

In the vibrant suburb of Gray’s Farm, a world away from the white sand beaches and luxury resorts tourists flock to Antigua to enjoy, Alton’s is a linchpin of community life.<\/p>

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It’s an image mirrored across the Caribbean island where “bread shops” are as much a meeting point, a place to share gossip and a joke, as somewhere to grab an affordable snack.<\/p>\n

Recipes and techniques – passed down from residents’ African ancestors – and sometimes equipment too have remained unchanged for generations.<\/p>

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Rudolph Orr, whose family opened Alton’s a century ago, rises at two in the morning seven days a week to start baking.<\/p>

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Over the last year, however, the soaring cost of flour has taken a massive bite out of the shop’s meagre profit.<\/p>\n

Like everywhere else, Antigua has been badly hit by the rising cost of living, exacerbated by the wheat blockades in Ukraine and many countries’ subsequent curtailing of exports.<\/p>\n

But for Mr Orr, passing on the extra costs to his customers is unthinkable.<\/p>\n

“If we did, some families around here wouldn’t be able to eat,” he says. “We try to help the people. For a family of seven or eight, an extra dollar on each bread would be a big increase. We are helping them survive.”<\/p>\n

It’s an ethos passed down to Mr Orr from his forefathers, along with the vintage tools he still uses to prepare his products.<\/p>\n

Flour imported from neighbouring islands has almost doubled in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

Alton’s has been forced to up its price by a nominal few cents – but a personal-size loaf, slathered with butter, cheese or salami, sells for the equivalent of just $0.75 (\u00a30.62).<\/p>\n

Wood-fired ovens are something of a dying tradition in Antigua. But, for the handful of bakeries that still use them, switching to a modern counterpart is inconceivable.<\/p>\n

“Electric ovens are much easier and have less smoke,” Mr Orr concedes. “But people like our bread for the smoky flavour and crunchy texture.”<\/p>\n

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Kent Augustine, who is picking up a loaf on his way to work, says the use of local cassia and tamarind wood gives it a unique flavour.<\/p>\n

“Prices have gone up everywhere but the bread is still very reasonable,” he adds.<\/p>\n

A contemporary oven would undoubtedly be safer, too. Baker John Peters laughs when asked if he ever gets burnt.<\/p>\n

“All the time,” he says, rolling up his sleeve to reveal the marks.<\/p>\n

At another bakery closer to St John’s, baker Tindell Joseph says the South Street bread shop has been a part of the community for decades.<\/p>\n

Mr Joseph learnt the trade many years ago and says the only thing that has changed is the use of vegetable fat in place of lard.<\/p>\n

“This place has a history,” he tells the BBC, surveying the spartan surroundings comprising a large wood oven and long table used to knead and shape the dough.<\/p>\n

“People used to come here to see the previous owner. I clown around, share a little chatter; people like that. I play music too – soft rock, reggae, calypso, words with a message. If no music is playing, people ask why,” Mr Joseph grins.<\/p>\n

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Regular customers come from as far as the other side of the island to pick up their morning loaf before heading into St John’s for work.<\/p>\n

“Fridays to Sundays are our busiest days. People come in to buy bread to eat with their Sunday breakfast of saltfish and greens,” he says.<\/p>\n

Bakery owner Lolita Peters bought the business five years ago when food prices were still relatively stable.<\/p>\n

In addition to flour, sugar has also increased by 25%, she says.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had ups and downs, but the bakery means a lot to the community and the country at large. They say my bread is the best,” Ms Peters explains.<\/p>\n

“I only put my price up a little because I consider there are two of us in the business – the customer and I – and up to now the customer is still on the same wage as before.<\/p>\n

“They appreciate that; lots of them come and thank me.”<\/p>\n

What the future holds for these traditional shops in the face of unprecedented financial challenges, coupled with an ageing generation of old-style bakers, no-one really knows.<\/p>\n

Ms Peters’ granddaughter Ariel Hughes has been helping out at the South Street outlet for most of her life. But, at 18, she has other ambitions.<\/p>\n

“I plan on living abroad so I will not be doing this,” she says. “I want to learn cosmetology and do makeup, hair and lashes.”<\/p>\n

Ms Peters says she hopes one of her other grandchildren will eventually take over the bakery, but adds: “It seems like they have other interests.”<\/p>\n

At Alton’s, Mr Orr says he’s tried in vain to convince his 22-year-old son to learn the trade.<\/p>\n

“I try to teach him,” he says, over the noise of a chicken that has wandered in, announcing its arrival with a loud squawk.<\/p>\n

“I tell him some day this will be his, but he seems more interested in modern things.”<\/p>\n

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