There must be readers whose engagement in a narrative is intensified by formulas like "I would always remember", "we were not aware of its irony", "she and I would come to share a deep slice of each other's lives" and – the daddy of them all – "but we knew none of this back then", otherwise successful writers wouldn't use them.
This selected culling from its catalog, packaged with a full narrative from the owner of the label and the store, Jesse Moskowitz, who died in May, is a deep slice of smart Latin-New Yorkiana, mostly from the mid-70s to late '80s.
I've found you can make a pretty good tomato sauce by cutting a deep slice in some cherry tomatoes, popping them in a mug with a dash of water and nuking them for about three or four minutes, until they give up the ghost and gently implode.
A deep slice through fur and skin; a cat missing for half the day; critical care in an animal hospital with intravenous antibiotics and heroic efforts to keep Emo from losing his leg; and thousands of dollars in vet bills.
The 1percentt is no longer the very top layer of the national economy, but a much deeper slice of residents in high-income, high-cost states like New York, Connecticut and California.
The tiny button of Ulva Island lies within Patterson inlet, a deep gash of water that slices through to the interior just to the east of the township.
Mohs surgery involves progressively removing sections of cancer-afflicted tissue, microscopically examining the tissue and, if cancer is found, taking yet another larger and deeper slice.
A simple salad of bibb lettuce with buttermilk dressing was topped with a deep-brown slice of prosciutto di Parma, baked to concentrate its dense, salty flavor and to alter its texture from chewy to crackling.
Robert Rich Jr., the 65-year-old chairman of Rich Products, is standing in the bow of Captain Frank Crescitelli's 32-foot boat, Fin Chaser, 80 miles off the coast of New Jersey on a deep, aquamarine slice of sea known as Spencer Canyon.
