Word: broccolis
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...Italy, Ronza notes, "you can get big arguments around any family dining table about the shapes of pasta that should go with different sauces." Large flowerets of broccoli, for example, do not work with long strands of linguine or spaghetti because it should be possible to pick up with a fork the solids in the sauce as well as the pasta. Big chunks of vegetables and meat are far better with the little ears (orecchiette) or penne. Finer ingredients, such as peas and minced prosciutto in a creamy sauce, are more suitable to delicate pastas that are twirled. That twirling...
Providing food for 3500 students every day is not an easy job, yet few freshmen ever give a second thought to the complex system which supplies them with apple crispitos, smothered burgers or the notorious broccoli-cheese pasta...
...sometimes acerbically, on the passing scene. Using the editorial "we," White once described how this process worked: "We write as we please and the magazine publishes as it pleases. When the two pleasures coincide, something gets into print." He also turned his hand to cartoon captions ("Mother: 'It's broccoli, dear.' Child: 'I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it.' ") and to "Newsbreaks," those column-ending snippets of published gaffes, capped by New Yorker quips. A Pittsburgh paper once garbled as follows: "Gent's laundry taken home. Or serve at parties at night." White's response...
...cruel, perverse test, ingeniously disguised as an ordinary college football game. In reality, though, it was a manipulative experiment that toyed with my emotions until I became a heap of broccoli cheese pasta, quivering on the ground and muttering, "If only ... if only...
...contradictions implicit in the U.S. need for illegal Mexican farm laborers once produced a strange harvest on a truck farm near El Mirage, Ariz. The farm grew a vegetable called broccoli di rapa, a plant that needs lots of irrigation, so the surrounding fields were muddy...