Word: butter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long ago a dietitian was that underpaid woman in the white smock who decided whether it would be peanut-butter or bologna sandwiches on the school lunch menu. Today, for those students who grew up to be bicoastal investment bankers, a dietitian is likely to be the latest acquisition in personal advisers. Though still usually a woman, she has gone private in a big way, with clients who include not only fitness trendies but the overweight, the pregnant and sufferers from such food-sensitive diseases as diabetes and hypertension. Aiming for permanent eating-pattern changes, the dietitian or nutritionist often...
...patience with students mastering the intricate hand operation of Chinese cooking is evident throughout. There is meticulous information on ingredients and techniques -- buying the correct flours, handling rolling pins and cutters and sealing edges so that dumplings do not steam apart. Cold noodle salad with sesame, peanut butter and chili sauce is a lovely accompaniment to barbecued meats and perfect on an outdoor buffet. The fried Beijing-style dumplings guo tie would be just right with a steaming borscht and a nice change from piroshki. Small fried won tons are a refreshingly different finger food, and the gently sweet miniature...
...with creme fraiche and caviars, chimney-smoked lobster, roast quail with savoy cabbage and kasha, wild mushroom tarts and such knockout desserts as macadamia nut tarts, lemon curd mousse and chocolate bread pudding. It would be a pity to cook by this book, thereby soiling pages with dabs of butter and egg yolk. Better photocopy recipes and keep the book on the coffee table, where it belongs...
Despite her little learning, Ellen is something of a student of the language. She ponders little oddities of British speech: "I wonder why everything always has to be nice, a nice cup of tea, a nice plate of bread and butter." Not surprisingly, the term brothel attracts her attention: "That is a terrible word and yet also a funny word, kind of domestic in a way, it always brings back my aunt saying when I was a kid living with her: Drink it all up now, that broth'll stick to your ribs." She looks at stale sayings with...
...perhaps by using some of the arts of the occult, she actually won a seat, beating out the University's official candidates. All because of a few Reece's peanut butter cups...