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...female scientists to the car she drives. How a person chooses to travel can say a lot about her, but Harvard provides a default mode of transportation. Along with an official residence, the University offers its commander in chief a black Lincoln town car, which once sported a license plate reading “1636.” “The Corporation provided in hiring me as president that the university car would drive me for all university functions and was also available for use in the Boston area more generally,” former University President Lawrence...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Faust & The Furious | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...four of the best (and cheapest!) establishments to get a good Square meal. Charlie’s Kitchen (10 Eliot Street) Going to Charlie’s is like going home for dinner—just as much food and almost as cheap, with the signature double-cheeseburger plate checking in at a disproportionate $4.95. The lobster is the real deal here: the twin lobster plate, complete with a golden cob of corn and mound of fries, is currently only $26. Not bad, considering that the signature New England crustaceans were pulling in about $20 per lobster just...

Author: By Courtney M. Petrouski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dining Out: Cheap Eats in the Square | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...fortitude to forge our way through this challenge with Harvard,” said Tim McHale, the president of the Allston Brighton Community Planning Initiative, referring to negotiations over the University’s planned expansion. “There’s no greater issue on their plate. This is not an election about potholes or parking...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vote Hinges on Allston Plan | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

...with such aesthetic refinement that they take on a quality of something between memory and dream. There might be a whole garden of potatoes in a medley of temperatures and textures, dusted with crunchy malt "soil" and served on a hot stone from the potato field rather than a plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where The Wild Things Are | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

Foraging wild foods is very much at the heart of Finnishness, where everyone has the right to pick wild berries and mushrooms even on private property. Yet there is a surprisingly big disconnect between the field and the plate. Commercial Spanish strawberries, bred for long shipping, are far easier to find on Helsinki menus than the wild Finnish strawberry exploding with the flavor of 20 hours of sunshine a day. And although Finns have figured out how to safely prepare korvasieni, a poisonous false-morel mushroom, by boiling it three times, porcini were long considered reindeer fodder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where The Wild Things Are | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

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