Word: gnaw
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Have you ever found yourself saying, "Ah, a fine spring day at last! I wish I had a ramp to gnaw...
...Then you're unlike the many, many chefs and green-market enthusiasts across the country who constitute the Church of the Ramp. Of course, they don't really gnaw on raw ramps, also known as wild leeks; they pickle them, char them and do a million other artful things with the onion-like stalk, the first green vegetable of spring in much of North America. There is no shortage of enthusiasts, both at home and in restaurants; after all, the Church of the Ramp is one of the fastest-growing denominations in the religion of seasonality. (See a special report...
...splashy epics that concentrated on the men. She dallied with Newman in Until They Sail, supported Peck as he made his way across The Big Country and in Spartacus was the slave who is bought by Olivier but pines for Douglas. There was some meat for her to gnaw on there, and in another 1960 film, Elmer Gantry, with Simmons as the fake evangelist promoted by Lancaster in one of his best smiling-shyster roles. Her Sister Sharon Falconer is more mature and complicated a figure than Sergeant Sarah Brown, and Simmons does full womanly justice to the character...