Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound more for them . . . You pay $1 to $1.10 a pound for center cuts of ham because you won't buy the end cuts that I am glad to trim up for you for 57 to 69? a pound. They are just as tender, have as much flavor, and are actually leaner (after I have trimmed them), but your husband makes too much money for you to use them . . . A chuck roast can be cooked just as tender and is every bit as flavorful as a rump or loin tip, though it won't slice as pretty...
...habit of suggesting things. We sure are tired of hearing you complain about tough meats ... If you take the toughest piece of meat and rub it well with any citrus fruit, leave it in the refrigerator overnight, then slow-cook it, you will be delighted with its tenderness and flavor...
Sweet & Sour. Many months and many diplomatic notes have passed since East and West have met socially in Berlin on any such scale. It is thus only natural that even the sickly sweet flavor of cocktail conversation be sharpened with a little acid. An American official points to a Soviet officer and says to me: "That s.o.b. looked straight through me-and we used to go boating together." A British lady, laboring under the delusion that she possesses a gift for repartee, is asked by a friend why she requires such a preposterously large pin to hold a single rose...
...lift was not that easy, but it had the genuine Bunyanesque flavor. The boasting and the wry understatement were as American as the fabulous Babe...
Little Ladders. Out of the professor's observations have come several books. The most successful of these was Canary (1936). The most recent is Everyday Miracle (Harper; $2.75), published last week. Dr. Eckstein's books have a peculiar flavor. The professor is no mere animal lover. He feeds his canaries lemon pie, provides little ladders for mice, and is sad when a favorite cockroach named He-Who-Leaps is eaten (he fears) by a favorite mouse named Patsy. But when he writes about them and their peculiarities, he is generally pointing out in a graceful way some mystery...