The capers that garnish vitello tonnato or a slice of beef are grown in the region, as are the hazelnuts used in pates, with veal and in countless sweets.
Folks even have dinner on their rooftops, digging into Tandoori chicken, undhiyu (a winter vegetable medley) and countless sweets, like deep-fried dough swirls called jalebi, and sweet sesame seed brittle.
"Better Call Saul" is an interesting case study in patience, taking its sweet time while countless other high-quality dramas rush to be devoured at the binge-watching buffet.
Her sorry tale could be repeated by countless women who, like Ms. Sweet, had hidden abdominal hernias, a condition that most doctors — including gynecologists and surgeons — rarely consider or know how to find.
"Places where decades of memories were built for families are destroyed," Gov. Chris Christie said in a morning news conference — beloved institutions like Jack-N-Bills Bar, Maruca's Tomato Pies, Berkeley Sweet Shop, and countless balloon and souvenir stands.
Just last month, at the annual Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, granola proved itself a nationwide obsession, with offerings from Napa Valley (Nature's Habit) and North Carolina (Millchap Bakery's version, which is made with sweet potatoes) and countless points in between.
Ripe, succulent enough to soak your fingers at first bite, and Bing cherry sweet, they come in countless varieties in a spectrum of colors.
But at the same time, we have countless adverts that are flamboyant, sickly sweet, and just hyperbolic all around, often with jarring color combinations and tragic abuse of effect filters.
Some populations of cockroaches evolved a simple, highly effective defense against sweet-tasting poison baits: They switched their internal chemistry around so that glucose, a form of sugar that is a sweet come-hither to countless forms of life, tastes bitter.
The rhythmic percussion of countless cicadas is replaced by the sweet pulsations of a dozen violins, their melody winding up into the hot Italian night like clouds of perfumed incense.
And there are countless other opportunities: for instance, orange-fleshed sweet potatoes from a home garden can avert Vitamin A deficiency, which causes hundreds of thousands of children in the developing world to go blind or die each year.
