Now Collins and his colleagues have aimed x-rays from a dentist's machine at their own thin, crusty, plastic-encased hafnium-178 sample and detected an answering blast of gamma photons.
His tune "You'll Know When" rumbles along with a crusty kick and shuffle while tribal samples cycle in the background.
"Best toast in town!" a young woman declared after sampling several varieties at brunch: crusty seven-grain topped with mashed avocado and chile flakes; crisp golden triangles painted with cinnamon butter; and a special of rum-raisin French, dolloped with crema inglés, banana, and macadamias.
I sampled two Tuscan red wines, while munching on crusty bread and an array of cheeses; the bill was $13.
But we longed to set aside our table manners, to say nothing of our limited dignity, and sample the primal brat experience: smoky sausage and crusty semmel crumbling together in the mouth, condiments merging into a single slithery sharpness and buttery juices dribbling down the shirt.
A recent meal there began with a selection of crusty, seed-flecked dark breads that arrived with a decadent butter sampler — butter with flakes of sea salt, butter whipped with yogurt and olive oil, and cream cheese topped with toasted olive oil.
It was impossible to resist bringing home the crusty, flavorful round loaf of wheat germ bread; an almond pastry being sampled burst with almond and was not overly sweet or sugary.
I pass butcher counters and recall how she liked to scrape up and sample pan drippings for their concentrated beefiness, and how she'd pick at the crusty, salty bits off the roast, although at the table, she liked her beef "mooing".
At the age of fifty-one, she took up naked sunbathing on the roof of her palazzo — directly across the water from the windows of police headquarters — and developed an attitude to sampling the local men which her friend Mary McCarthy compared to her attitude toward the local olives and crusty bread.
