Word: basil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ducasse. That is, fast food. In Be's ultra-modern basement kitchen, eight young cooks are hard at work making snacks the French can be proud of. The shop's glass-fronted counter is stocked with 17 different types of sandwich, including sardines in olive bread with olive oil, basil and sun-dried tomatoes (€8) and the Be hotdog, with its chipolata sausages, truffles and whole-grain mustard (€8). A cold cabinet at the back of the store contains a range of ready-to-cook main dishes, vegetables and sauces. The whole approach is tailor-made for busy...
...Grimmen-based mail and Internet order firm Essbare Landschaften (Edible Landscapes), which sells 150 different herbs to customers across Europe, because of their special taste - and the fact that they don't linger on the breath. (To judge for yourself, make some pesto using ramsons instead of basil and toss with walnut fettuccini.) The growing interest in local herbs and roots has been cultivated by a general trend toward a vegetarian diet. In 1992, the average German consumed 82 kg of vegetables annually; by the end of 2001 the figure had grown...
...Greystone campus have given him a solid grounding in food preparation. He cooks for friends and family, does some catering on the side and has contemplated switching to a career in culinary arts. He learned how to prepare such meals as grilled shrimp with tomato and basil coulis, veal scallopini with asparagus and herb risotto and pork medallions. "This was the kind of experience that you could just immerse yourself in totally," Branch says...
...which of these two cases applies to Spice, which boasts “fine Thai cuisine” on Holyoke Street? Adaptation, or simply fraudulence? Real Thai food, to my mind, is a harsh taskmaster, intransigently fiery and torrid, laced with demanding, domineering accents—lemongrass, basil, shallots. I didn’t expect the typical American palate to be able to hold up against the full assault. There was clearly going to have to be some compromise. Not that this was necessarily a bad thing, of course. I have vivid memories of nasal-laryngeal conflagrations brought about...
Leaving the experiment to solidify, we head to the walk-in refrigerator. Plastic buckets labeled “egg whites,” “basil,” “crème anglais,” “chocolate“ and “fruit puree” line the walls. Branigan swings a full bucket of liquid chocolate off a shelf and swoops back out to the room...