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.

We are seeing the decline of cultural gatekeeping— the control over what is deemed worthy exerted by critics, educators, and so forth. Doctors who screen patients for clinical need provide a gatekeeping function for healthcare services.

As soon as I heard he was coming I hightailed it out of there.

She's waiting for me at the bottom of the flight of steps

Pistachios are very expensive nuts.

After their encounter with the bastinado they could, in any case, hardly stand.

The typical forms are bowls, tureens, high stands

Rice cultivars exist that are adapted to deep flooding. A local cultivar of banana was planted.

He's the scion of a very wealthy newspaper-publishing family.

The ham was cured and dispensed into packages.

his unctuous manner/voice/smile

Would you care to sample my cupcakes?

. This symbolizes the black people of Zimbabwe who are no quitters at anything they set their mind on.

And you say she's opening your letters now? Oh, that really takes the biscuit!

I fumbled with the lock. He fumbled in his pockets for some change. If Wilson hadn't fumbled that catch, we might have won the match.

He was chomping away on a bar of chocolate. There she sat, happily chomping her breakfast.

Baste the turkey at regular intervals

He was an early and enthusiastic tinkerer in the new American style. You're supposed to be the best tinkerers in the galaxy.

I packed the ground around the tree. A huge crowd packed the hall.

Their ostensible goal was to clean up government corruption, but their real aim was to unseat the government.

The child takes a snack in a piece of paper or a satchel and there is nowhere to warm it

there's no difference between frying pans and skillets, except where one word is used more predominantly over the other. "Skillet" is typically the more popular term in the Southern U.S.

We believe that it is incumbent on us to improve the market for our citizens. In order to be a good mayor, the incumbent should care about their citizens.

Yet that simple repast was fit for a king

The term kippering is used in slang to mean being immersed in a room filled with cigarette or other tobacco smoke

The campsite has water and electric hook-ups. video hook-up He entered his plea from the jail via a video hook-up.

Out there on the high seas, things are not as they should be.

We have enough advertisement materials to fill out our time slot. Is what I feel for you just another fact to be slotted into the great picture?

Scale can cause cavity

a salacious book/joke/comment.

There was a sliver of cake left on the plate. a sliver of glass Just a sliver of cake for me, please - I shouldn't really be having any.

Her emotions ran the gamut from joy to despair. From car camping to backcountry treks, tents run the gamut in terms of design, materials, and features — not to mention capacity.

Charles had a penchant for getting in trouble. His penchant for conquests is well documented.

Many of those problems can be allayed with a little planning. They allayed my concerns at least for the time being.

the unpalatable truth/facts about the war

It was a stressful day at work and by 5.00 I was completely frazzled. I'd only been in the sun a couple of hours and my back was frazzled. By the time I remembered about the meat it was frazzled.

be enmeshed in The whales are caught by being enmeshed in nets. She has become enmeshed in a tangle of drugs and petty crime.

Plate up and finish with a drizzle of the salsa

What a tacky ending that would be. ticky-tacky

In this context, a little whimsy goes a long way.

I'll have to lodge a complaint with Mrs. Baker. lodge a claim. The US lodged a formal protest against the arrest of the foreign reporters.

A fish bone had lodged in her throat. You should lodge a copy of the letter with your solicitor. She lodged with Mrs Higgins when she first came to Cambridge.

They needed a bit of a ballsy character, I think.

You've eaten it all? You hog! He's always hogging the bathroom (= spending too much time in the bathroom, so that no one else can use it).

The president is preparing for a showdown with Republicans over his plans to reform the economy. Millions of dollars were spent on lawyers in a courtroom showdown between the two companies. You can't win a showdown with a bluff.

I was silent, listening to the homely chucking of his trowel in the dirt. I chucked my job yesterday. She chucked a glass into the wall.

They're very hot on dress at work so she always looks very smart for the office. The company was always hot on health and safety in the workplace. She's very hot on environmental issues.

Your spin of that information is interesting. This is a different spin of the poem.

That sauce had a gloopy texture

a festering sore. It's better to express your anger than let it fester inside you. a festering argument/dispute

The deal comes a year after an abortive attempt by management to buy the company.

a racy story a racy style a racy advertisement racy swimwear She is trying to create a racier image for herself.

We can get something to drink in the interval.

In fact, most international belligerents eventually face off across the table and negotiate the war's end.

He was still peeved, but not sure what to do about it.

This is the first garden and has always been the most manicured part of the site.

By (a strange) happenstance they were both in Paris at the same time.

A New Temperance Poem, in Memory of my Departed parents. The Church's Lamentation over Departed Greatness

She stood tall and had a willowy look about her. She was a willowy woman in a smart, dark dress.

extruded aluminium rods

Lumped together, these two groups were no more than 4000 strong. "They seem to have lumped people together as a group."

She dropped the book on her foot and let out a row/string of expletives.

She's inherited from her father a propensity to talk too much. He's well-known for his natural propensity for indiscretion.

Ask your valet to bring us some wine.

Fess up - it was you who ate that last piece of cake, wasn't it?

have the gumption to She had the gumption to write directly to the company manager and persuade him to give her a job.

Opiates are not intended for use until all pain goes away.

I heard a low-down on your brother and I want to share it with you. Wow, that was a low-down suggestion

He wanted to space her out but I told her the truth.

She's kinda bonkers, you know that.

You're gonna love this deli. Their selection is out of this world.

The new lower price caps will take effect on July 1.

Malbec, a red-wine varietal, represents a quarter of Argentina's wine exports

"To me that should be the linchpin of the report," h

A lap dog - the ultimate example of the talking class.

It is not clear what effect that scapegoating would have on policy.

The above holds true only for non-viscous fluids.

He tried to keep the jubilation out of his voice.

He siphoned €600,000 from company accounts to pay for his secret lifestyle.

She handed me a business card with her name neatly embossed on it.

"In the hand it looks wonderful - only part of the gilding is lost," he said.

Oh here, let me help," Michael said, moving a trivet to the center of the table

Silverfish can live for a year or more without eating.

a patent lie a patent disregard of the law "No," he replied, with patent distaste.

The architects took their cue for the design of the new hotel from the nearby banks

Eggs are shelf-stable if the shell is intact and they have not been cooked. In most of the US lard comes shelf-stable – it doesn’t need to be fridged.

The government is trying to allay public fears/concern about the spread of the disease.

It was an egregious error for a statesman to show such ignorance. Even more egregious, they say, is to tell him what he can and cannot know. "But this is probably the most egregious case I have ever seen."

They try to keep offenders away from the factors that influenced their felonious behaviour in the past. felonious assault She was found guilty of felonious assault with a bladed weapon.

We'd love to hear your take on this issue.

a treatment for cleaning the bowels by filling them with a liquid through the anus

foolish fire

You won't double cross us again. We'll be ready this time. I don't want to double-cross them. I know they are dangerous

could hear you sloshing around in the bath. We sloshed through the puddles. She sloshed (= poured without care) some more brandy into her glass.

As yet, there are no tables for noshing at the bakery.

Do you see evidence here of a campaign or a covert war? covert actions The government was accused of covert military operations against the regime

This almost androgynous person - someone who looks like a woman on the outside but is so beyond.

The woman tried to mollify the impact of her report. I'm on my way to mollify a public relations problem.

As they worked, the water began to get very choppy.

gaudy plastic flowers

This gave me such a start that the diary entry said, "Where he come from?"

suet pudding

He has a torn cartilage in his knee.

a type of fish that lives in northern parts of the world and is usually caught for its eggs, which are eaten as caviar

A ductile metal can be bent or stretched easily. This is the softest and most ductile form of steel. He draws out that ductile gullibility in all of us.

We need to gear up fast.

bootleg CDs/liquor

He launched into a long diatribe against the lack of action in Congress

The process is a little bit unwieldy, but it works. Has it grown too large and unwieldy over the last 30 years?

I like Italy, Germany and sundry other European countries. Sundry distant relatives, most of whom I hardly recognized, turned up for my brother's wedding.

Who's that potbellied man sitting over there? She owns a potbellied pig. After 20 years of heavy drinking, he has a massive potbelly.

I'm usually accosted by beggars and drunks as I walk to the station.

I'll clear them out if I can, and you may be able to hear my bugle when you're on your way.

a Christmas tree decorated with tinsel

In my opinion, mozzarella is the go-to cheese for pizza

Yet again the Guardian does not want to be left behind when it comes to shameless warmongering.

Perhaps a little hair of the dog that bit you would help?

We bonded over/through our passion for jogging”

And the pain of the gout now gone from him

build-up of information

One bowl of millet was provided for every four men.

Flies, lice, and cockroaches can all be described as vermin. He thought all terrorists were vermin

Fill the pail with sand. It took several pails of water (= the amount a pail contains) to put out the fire.

The children remained unweaned well beyond their first birthday. The kittens were unweaned and still dependent on their mother.

Until relatively recently, the Japanese car industry was the touchstone of international success.

He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.

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

wheat bran. Both these breakfast cereals have added bran.

My sister dropped a bombshell by announcing she was leaving her job.

He had never been too finicky about his food when in the field.

The goat has been the symbol of male randiness since classical times.

a deliciously tangy lemon tart