So, too, the grilled octopus appetizer, with threads of piquillo pepper coulis bracketing fork-tender octopus legs, crosscut fingerling potatoes, wilted baby spinach, green olives, chorizo bits and a sprinkling of bread crumbs that was salty, oily, and utterly delicious.
You might wish for more of the straightforward flavors, like those in the rustic garganelli with lamb Bolognese, notable for both its rich tomato sauce and its delightfully gratuitous sprinkling of bread crumbs.
On the other side of the ledger, six plump baked littleneck clams oreganato ($8) with a sprinkling of seasoned bread crumbs were overwhelmed by their unexpectedly lemony garlic sauce, and chicken pot pie ($13) "topped with a herb biscuit" turned out to be more like an anemic chicken à la king without a trace of the biscuit or crust of any kind.
The Louisiana-born-and-bred Mr. Besh is well equipped to explain arcane holidays like the feast of St. Joseph, patron saint of carpenters, celebrated by the city's Sicilian-Americans partly by sprinkling mudrica, a "sawdust" made of bread crumbs, onto bowls of pasta.
Open ravioli -- a single sheet of silken homemade pasta over a filling of lobster, chopped prawns and cuttlefish, and a sprinkling of panko bread crumbs in a powerful seafood-tomato reduction -- was brilliantly alive on Saturday, a bit flaccid on Tuesday.
Divide the pasta among 4 bowls, then drizzle a little bit of olive oil over the pasta followed by freshly grated cheese and a sprinkling of toasted bread crumbs.
The aguachile, fine fat shrimp cured in a sharp broth of citrus and kombu seaweed, could pass for a course at Providence were it not for the chile heat; a scallop in its shell, briefly broiled under a sprinkling of buttery bread crumbs saturated in squid ink, is lovely.
G&M adds a touch of bread crumbs.
She retrieved a tub of bread crumbs from the counter.
He should have left a trail of bread crumbs.
If you want it to be breaded, roll it around in a lot of bread crumbs.
