I lived there with four roommates — all messy straight boys — and had a tiny bedroom overlooking a pommes-frites shop.
Heathcote, meanwhile, cooks his potatoes separately, in vast amounts of clarified butter, to produce a rich potato cake reminiscent of a pommes anna.
When journalists questioned the florid tone of her reviews, Greene had a ready response: "The same sense that registers pleasure at the table measures the delights in bed: the eye, the nose, the mouth, the skin, the ear that records a whimper of joy or a crunch of a superior pomme frite".
One of the show's signature pieces, well suited to New York, is the famous Glass Apple, a perfect pomme just the right size and topped by a bit of stem, an item so popular that it is still being produced by Steuben (and knocked off by others).
The Prix Ars Electronica has become something of a hot pomme de terre in recent years.
Paris -- Offenbach's rakish "homme a la pomme" (man with the apple) -- gaily tells us all about it.
You'll rarely get talked about as a great chef because you make a perfect pommes Anna, but if you add uni to it, or encapsulate it in sodium alginate, by golly, the world will beat a path to your door.
The day of the Ribston harvest, Mr. Wood and his right-hand man, Fitzgerald Campbell, sampled a dozen fruits of Pomme Grise, a flat, nutty-flavored russet, spitting out the bites like wine tasters.
In a delightful F.Y.I. item on June 4 ("La Grande Pomme"), a reader asked whether New York City had had any other European names other than "New Amsterdam".
