Word: piquant
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...gastronomic guesswork I was able to match most of the dishes with the items listed on the menu. The star of the spread was definitely the Beef Oxtail. The meat was unbelievably tender, the kind of tender where you practically don't have to chew. It had a piquant, peppery flavor with a full-bodied beefy sauce that can only be produced through hours of patient simmering. Very tasty. Also quite good was a chicken stew that was bizarrely Germanized on the menu as "Chicken Stroganoff." The chicken was smothered in a garlicky cream sauce with a surprising dash...
...added that "the approval of one's colleagues is always the most enjoyably piquant...
...Tabasco: "Mosquito" The 130-year-old red-pepper sauce provided zest during a 1997 Super Bowl full of commercial clunkers. When a mosquito bites someone consuming Tabasco and explodes seconds later, you don't have to live on a bayou to appreciate the piquant sauce's power...
Lavish and piquant as a mini-series should be, this co-production of A&E and the BBC never misses a note of Austen's arch comic tone, following her narrative faithfully as the Bennet family sets about finding wealthy husbands for its five unattached daughters. Production values are first rate, with gardens and parlors so meticulously observed they could make Merchant and Ivory give up and turn to Die Hard sequels. And yet, amid the tastefulness, sexual tension lurks. Colin Firth plays Mr. Darcy, the romantic lead, as though he were a creation of the Brontes rather than...
...Black Revolution a toxic sedative: cheap dope. And it worked too well, enslaving whites as well as blacks. As Panther notes, America has 10 times as many drug addicts now as it did in the '60s. The notion of the fbi's fomenting a domestic opium war is piquant-but preposterous. And what if it's true? Are we to blame aboriginal Americans for introducing tobacco to the Europeans...