A lovely, small picture by van de Velde the Younger showing boats being pulled up onto a beach is made with a creamy, simplifying touch that looks forward to the 19th-century French painter Corot.
Both mango chicken ($13), marinated boneless meat slabs in a toss of vegetables, fruit and chutney, and rogan josh ($12), lamb cubes in a creamy ginger touched red sauce, were easy to eat with just a faint hint of spiciness.
And at £7.90, Kiko's Velvet Touch Creamy Stick Blush is great value.
If perfection took the form of bread, this would be it: salty, smoky, creamy, with a touch of tartness.
And although Elīna Garanca made for a visually captivating Carmen, seducing the males not only with her figure but with her darting eyes, the grain of her voice — creamy, precise, a touch small, finely projected — was wrong for the part, which needs an edgier, smokier timbre.
The appetizer featured four ribs in a tasty barbecue sauce teamed with delicious creamy potato salad touched with truffle oil.
The collection was solid, with day dresses in navy silk faille and creamy cotton that touched on the transparency theme, their sheer hems like dirty peeks through a window blind.
Haart Piesporter Goldtröpfchen Spätlese: $18 ** 1/2 [Rating: 2 and a half stars] Hesser called it well made with a touch of creamy caramel on the nose.
They described the company's draft-style root beer as having "a slightly creamy body and a touch of wintergreen to the finish".
Buy now {5} Makers and Merchants Hello Sailor Chocolate Bar: £2.50, uniqueandunity.co.uk This is not your average bar: the intensely creamy chocolate, with a touch of sea salt, all packaged up in Makers and Merchants' fun packaging, is a sweet and ethically-sound pressie for a loved one.
