tasting history+ cuisine

Still, fish sauce and garum are much different from anchovies.

Your eyelid always pulses when you lie. My muscles pulse after a hard training. The landscape was pulsing with life.

the art of cutting bushes into attractive shapes, especially of animals and birds, or bushes shaped in this way. The garden is in the arts and crafts style, and features topiary, a long border, an orchard and a wild flower meadow.

Residents fled the onrush of the floodwaters. Nothing was important but to give in again to the onrush of his mouth. Their Boston winter world was being overtaken by the onrush of time.

I am not able to glean any useful information from the producer's site. They're leaving on Tuesday - I managed to glean that much (from them).

Announcement of the merger is expected to ramp up share prices over the next few days. Mitsubishi has ramped up the speed of its new micro-controllers. Most countries, including the United States, have also ramped down since the cold war.

She chucked a glass into the wall. I chucked my job yesterday. Chuck some beans in the soup.

Must is a freshly pressed fruit juice. The must comes from the old and dirty rags on the floor.

The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing. The report contains numerous portentous references to a future environmental calamity. Everything seemed portentous, though of what no one could say.

He had an internal haemorrhage, we're very sorry. The cause of her death was a brain haemorrhage.

She recalled the halcyon days of her youth. a halcyon era following the American Civil War

Add a heaped teaspoonful of sugar.

What was all the hilarity about?

Examples of these products include cooked ham, sausages, bacon

This doesn't hold water, can you explain it again?

Tried to gussy it up with political motivation. The museum will put finishing touches on new exhibits and gussy up old ones in time for the grand reopening. He was all gussied up in a jacket and frilled shirt.

bawdy humour/songs

Village cures in their black cassocks and shovel hats, and monks in sandals and brown woollen robes, were everywhere.

A commemoration and re-dedication service will be held in the new school. The rededication was held in honour of all veterans.

What does a young wench like you need with more?

Serve with a side dish of garlicky green beans. Hot, garlicky air escaped as he started inside. garlicky breath could kill a vampire

I need fabric with a plaid pattern.

Brosnan speaks with an accent that’s a fusion of his own silvery brogue and a gruff drawl. His voice held more than a bit of a brogue.

Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse. For myself, I espouse the middle position, whatever that may be.

A penance which hypothecated payments for the upkeep of paupers or priests was imaginative and peculiarly appropriate in the fight against heresy

If you ate more fibre you wouldn't get constipated.

sulphurous language

For my money, Wayne puts on the best show in town. for my money the choice is obvious

Your tongue-in-cheek comments are sometimes annoying. She fell in love with his tongue-in-cheek humour.

The main course was a pork roast stuffed with prunes. You don't like her but it doesn't mean that you can roast her.

He saved a bunch of grapes for later. I ate a bunch of bananas.

The two men apparently struck up a bromance while working on the movie set together.

It was without doubt the best surf and turf I have ever tasted. The surf 'n' turf combo was substantial and satisfying.

She had to put her ring in pawn to pay the bills. Of all items pawned, jewellery is the most common

extraterrestrial. terrestrial deity. the search for terrestrial planets

When I first met him, he was very energetic. Now he is a husk of a man. My son, by contrast, had nothing much to report, just a couple of old egg husks.

earplug

someone's neck of the woods

Then at the other side there’s the sweet, tanginess from the cream. This is a mild cheese but has a nice tanginess

odpady nukleaerne

The nuclear waste is encased in concrete before being sent for storage in disused mines.

a bovine virus. He had a gentle, slightly bovine expression.

pecuniary needs pecuniary rewards. pecuniary aid pecuniary gifts. cattle were viewed as a trading commodity, and property was often valued in terms of cattle

They tried to palliate the hardship of their lives. The drugs palliate pain but have no effect on inflammation. He tried to palliate his guilt before you by involving me in its responsibility."

intercourse

Her skin had a warm musky odour.

Under time pressure, little adjustments are going by the wayside. In the end, many stood firm and kept what they wanted, but real reform went by the wayside. wayside shrines

Put all the ingredients in the food processor and blend it

He entered the room drunk and bottomless - everyone started laughing.

The secret ingredient in this dish is shallot.

Did you at least thumb through this book like I asked?

Is it surprising then that after such violent roles there follow relapses into feverishness and debility?

The scientists found an adulterant in samples.

If you look on the duty roster, you'll see when you're working. shift list.

but there was only a great wall of sooty darkness that reeked of acid smoke and billowed overhead to besprinkle Skama with black.

Joe surreptitiously had a look in the answer book. an audiotape of the surreptitiously recorded conversation

The pipe was found to be disgorging dangerous chemicals into the sea. The delayed commuter train disgorged hundreds of angry passengers. Flies disgorge digestive fluid onto their food to soften it up.

She went round plumping up the cushions. Lips can be plumped up with injections.

I hope we can tie our project up by the end of the year.

I'm glad we have a savvy guy like you on our payroll. My parents are truly eco savvy. My street savvy should not be taken lightly.

Though there were a number older than he, they acknowledged his chieftaincy. During this period efforts were made to define and protect chieftaincy.

The first film is shabby. a film of smoke

A gang of youths were loitering outside the cinema. Come straight home and don't loiter, Alan.

the human tongue has almost 6 thousand taste buds.

the theory of the four humors was quite prevalent among all classes of society in the date of antiquity, just as in the medieval period afterward.

He said that he was a huge fan of the president, although I suspect it was tongue in cheek.

Firefighters were driven back by the overpowering heat of the flames. There's an overpowering smell of garlic in the kitchen. He's suffering from overpowering feelings of guilt.

zairenkowy

a seedy hotel He didn't like the look of the seedy characters who were hanging around outside the bar.

How did your match pass off?

When it first came out, the novel was banned for licentiousness. Charles's reign ushered in a period of licentiousness.

a medley of popular tunes The menu described the dessert as "a medley of exotic fruits".

She had briny lips. The briny was luring him.

Lye was the main ingredient in homemade soap of the era. Olives are often cured with lye to make them less bitter. The cinders falling into the water made a lye.

But dubious or not, they pay to hear what he has to say. He gave me a dubious look but asked no questions.

It's the story of a woman who plots a dastardly revenge on her unfaithful lover.

Cover the bowl with clingfilm and leave in a warm place for one hour.

We had poached eggs for breakfast. Do you like pears poached in red wine?. to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else's land. Jeff always poaches my ideas, and then pretends that they're his own.

Come to the table everybody - I'm ready to dish (supper) up. What's the canteen dishing up for us today?

His funk was all over the room. He got the usual kind of funk and ran away

After four minutes, pour the pasta into a colander to drain.

His book extolling the benefits of vegetarianism sold thousands of copies. extol the virtues of She is forever extolling the virtues of her children.

This makes some parts of the substrate higher than others. They live on substrates both above and below the water level.

the shank of a screwdriver the shank of a key/nail. You can buy ready-to-use beef shanks from your supermarket. As he tottered across the stage I noticed how shrunken were his shanks, how feeble his voice.

After boasting that his company could outperform the industry's best, he's been forced to eat humble pie.

a member of the landed gentry (= those who own a lot of land)

He was summarily dismissed from his job. More than 50 other captured rebels were summarily executed

Even more than creature comforts, they should be on every car. I might as well have my creature comforts around me.

Do not use a laxative without first talking to your doctor.

He plunged the knife into the man's vitals and he was dead within seconds. The new law is intended to curb the drug addiction and trafficking that is eating into the vitals of the economy of the country.

If your scallops are smaller, you can use two or three.

Vestments are saying something very important about our relationship with God.

By this time, most of the unit was on its feet, lined up with mess kits in hand.

Arriving late for the interview scuppered my chances of getting the job. The chance has been scuttled.

He pressed down the plunger of his cafetière.

Which vegetables do you add to your potage? this pumpkin potage is absolutely fantastic. This godly ball-like vegetable adss so much flavor to it.

A particularly virulent strain of flu has recently claimed a number of lives in the region. She is a virulent critic of US energy policy.

He can be seen everyday, running across the quad from one university building to another.

Clouds of acrid smoke issued from the building. And forgetting to keep the acrid note out of his voice.