Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third day, I had a bowl of Fu Manchu stew, a plate of vegetable tempura, another taco, and a tall cup of fruit salad...
...House Democrats were badly split over what course of action to take. Many were tempted to sit back and, as an aide to Speaker Tip O'Neill put it, "let the Republicans stew in their own juices." O'Neill has already dismissed the Hollings plan and is pushing his own lieutenants in the House to come up with an alternative. Yet one Democratic leader points out that the Speaker may still be nursing wounds from his humiliating defeat in last year's bruising budget battle. "Tip is afraid to take the lead," he said. "He doesn...
...LUNCHTIME on a December day in 1981, and about a dozen casually dressed young men and women are sitting around a U-shaped wooden table in Eliot House, eating a meal of beef stew, salad, and liqueur-laced icecream, served to them by a staff of two who pop in and out of an adjoining kitchen. It is one of three meals the group has each week around the table. The previous night, they donned suits and gowns for a weekly formal dinner; three days later, they will return for another informal lunch...
...such delicate provincial dishes as dandelion salad, poularde en demi-deuil and sole with stuffed artichoke bottoms (preferably using the slippery little fish known in Bordeaux as "lawyers' tongues"), as well as such robust peasant offerings as potato pie, braised partridge with lentils, and stufatu, a Corsican beef stew with macaroni...
...jazzed-up version, can be a treat. Indeed, a number of traditional dishes are in danger of becoming fashionable. Among them: lemony Sussex Pond pudding; Hindle Wakes, a prune-flavored cold poached chicken dish; Welsh onion cake and cockie leekie (chicken-leek) soup; chicken stovies, a succulent Scottish stew; syllabub, the English answer to zabaglione...