Word: lemon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Berthillon's ice cream is known for its flavorful creativity. The shop offers nearly 80 varieties including Café au Whiskey, Fresh Fig, Guava, Ginger-Caramel, Kumquat, Thyme-Lemon, and even one flavored with Earl Grey tea. To a public concerned about the failing quality of their food, however, Berthillon's trademark dedication to detail is even more appreciated...
...waiting area of the restaurant is a small boutique of mugs, spices, and savories for tourists or loyal locals. Sylvia's Family Cook Book can be purchased along with her mixes of lemon pepper, cornbread, hot sauce, and muffin mix. A rousing gospel brunch begins on Sundays...
This point is vividly made in paintings like Thiebaud's Pies, Pies, Pies, 1961. Each of the soft wedges (and how beautifully the squidginess of the oil paint consorts with what it is imitating, the squishiness of the lemon meringue and chocolate!) is very much its own thing. But there are differences of color and shape that save the serried ranks of piedom from monotony, and you are drawn into the small but clear discriminations that make an interesting painting. You end up thanking Thiebaud, in absentia, for reminding you how various and plural the world really...
Think of the global economy as you might think of yourself starting to feel sick. You wake up one day with a bad cold--that was last winter. It turns into a nasty dose of flu that, with a few pills and lots of honey and lemon, you think you'll get over soon. That was the spring. But now your aches and pains are beginning to feel like something worse; pneumonia, maybe? That's where we are this summer...
...like that Miles Davis song, Hooker was all blues. In fact, Miles once said that Hooker was so infused with the sound of the Delta that he described the bluesman as "buried up to his neck in mud." Hooker wasn't all blues all by himself: there was Blind Lemon Jefferson and Charley Patton before him, B.B. King and Muddy Waters right there with him, and many, many performers after him. Early in their careers, the Rolling Stones opened for Hooker. Early in his career, Bob Dylan shared the bill with Hooker. Bruce Springsteen, Ry Cooder and others have...