Eggs, onions, tomatoes, green chilies, ginger-garlic paste, yogurt, turmeric powder, chili powder, cumin powder, coriander ...

Every day before dawn, Jamil Ghafori gets to work on the floor of a cramped Kabul bakery with five other men churning out thousands of traditional flatbreads -- the staple of every Afghan meal.

First, a steaming cup of milky Afghan chai arrives ... tucked into fried rice that’s green with mint and curry leaves (green egg rice); scrambled with a coconut-onion gravy (malvani bhurji ...