The roasted almonds and almond milk add a nutty flavor to the drink, without making it rich... and the lemon balm infuses it with its delicate herbal essence.
There is nothing like the taste of a truffle, and nothing as delicate as its essence.
A little starter sings of springtime, as a delicate, clear tomato essence is poured over baby vegetables.
In its own minimalist way it becomes a thoughtful, delicate inquiry into the essence of the artistic process and a tribute to the beauty and mutability of nature.
Also coming soon: David Yurman's fragrance trio, the Essence collection — Delicate, Fresh and Exotic — each $85 for 3.4 ounces, to be sold exclusively at Bloomingdale's in February, and a "flanker" (as sequels are called in the fragrance business) to Marc Jacobs's Daisy, called Eau So Fresh.
In the decades that followed, Mr. Hirschfeld's delicate line has captured the essence of hundreds of Broadway productions and their stars, ranging from Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the 1930's to the likes of Kevin Spacey and Brian Dennehy in more recent years.
Like much of Mr. Greenberg's writing, this comic drama might be described as a work of serious whimsy, of glittering style and dark substance, and it requires a delicate hand to capture its elusive essence.
In "Hunger" he shrunk into the mere essence of a man, delicate bones covered by gossamer flesh, as Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army hunger striker.
The way this image is layered and burnt speaks to me of memory, time, loss and the beauty of things delicate, imperfect and incomplete, which in essence, is the very definition of the project.
Mr. Cain also makes another unusual product, Crispin's Rose, a gently floral, delicate rose liqueur that is the distilled essence of a huge amount of hand-plucked rose petals — 108 pounds, to be exact — for 300 gallons of liqueur.
