Word: garnish
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...next time your entree arrives with a tuft of tiny greens on top, don't push them aside. Those diminutive, seemingly unnecessary sprigs of baby basil, chervil or arugula are an integral ingredient, not a garnish. The teensy leaves are sprouting up in restaurants across the U.S. as chefs discover that big flavor is sometimes hidden in little bundles. Charlie Trotter pioneered the use of microgreens at his namesake Chicago restaurant, paving the way for the baby herbs to show up on the menus of such eateries as Alain Ducasse at the Essex House in New York City...
When running into a dining hall, Dartboard is often greeted by friendly dining hall employees. Unfortunately, for the past couple of weeks, the only thing being doled out has been a plate of chastising with the garnish of rejection...
...slide show’s message is contained quite aptly in one image that shows a steak, a garnish of parsley, and asparagus. “Don’t tell me these advertisers don’t know exactly what they’re doing,” admonishes Ms. Adams as she flips to this image, apparently a comment directed at people like me who see, well, a steak with some vegetables. She lets her warning set in and then explains: the steak is really a “fragmentized referent” to the female body...
...slide show’s message is contained quite aptly in one image that shows a steak, a garnish of parsley, and asparagus. “Don’t tell me these advertisers don’t know exactly what they’re doing,” admonishes Ms. Adams as she flips to this image, apparently a comment directed at people like me who see, well, a steak with some vegetables. She lets her warning set in and then explains: the steak is really a “fragmentized referent” to the female body...
...watched in dismay as British pubs have caught the disease of pretentious French restaurants: menu inflation. In the 2003 edition of his guide, he strikes back, skewering pubs for misleading customers with fancy names and elaborate descriptions like "fresh tuna on a futon of leaves" for a salad garnish or "fried pork pojarski served on a bed of rocket with a cordon of sauce smitane" for a pork cutlet in cream sauce. "Good pubs rely on the quality of their cooking, not the quality of their verbosity," says Aird. That could easily be Andrew Pern's mantra. The owner...