Word: slabbed
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...cooking is the theme of The Trellis Cookbook by Marcel Desaulniers (Weidenfeld & Nicolson; $25). Unlike most recipes from restaurant chefs, these from the Trellis Restaurant in Colonial Williamsburg can be managed by mere mortals with only two hands. Some dishes have many steps (grilled smoked lamb with artichokes and slab bacon on fresh-thyme fettuccine), but Desaulniers outlines how to organize ahead. Corn and tomato fritters, roast loin of pork with walnut butter and a chocolate-praline ice cream terrine are winners...
...first homer came in the first inning following a one-out single by firstbaseman Franklin Stubbs. Hatcher buried Davis' 1-1 pitch over the left-field fence and proceeded to round the bases like a starving man who has stumbled across a slab of meat...
Doug Flutie had risen from the grave, which in this case took the form of a slab of wood beside the football field. He had conquered...
...resist that last slab of sweet pumpkin...
...corbels (meant more as effigies of "types" of men than as specific portraits, however sharp and humorous their realism) to the forbiddingly hieratic tomb effigies of dead lords like Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, lying cross-legged and pointy-toed as though about to leap up from the slab, his sword half-drawn from its scabbard to show his readiness to defend the Christian faith...