Specialities adapted from the El Bulli menu include baguettes emptied of bread and filled with Iberico ham, liquid ravioli, and candyfloss trees filled with fruit (Av del Paral.lel 164; closed Mon & Sun, & Aug; from £4.50).
The other morning, Ms. Spivey rushed over to the fence as a young man emptied a bag of bread crumbs on the sidewalk.
A government order to slash prices of all goods and services by about half in June has left stores across the country empty of meat, cornmeal, bread and other staples and crippled transportation services.But I was completely flabbergasted by what came next.
We'd have big loaves of bread, emptied out so only the crust remains, with tiny songbirds inside, singing.
Gorbachev's final years in office were plagued by the spectacle of bread queues, empty grocery stores and shortages in everything from meat to matches.
Intensely atmospheric still lifes follow of loaves of bread, battered baskets empty or filled with potatoes or apples, the remains of frugal meals left on simple tables, mirrors, worn pairs of shoes, a white-washed storeroom heaped with old-fashioned rush-bottomed cafe chairs.
Shop shelves are empty of water bottles, rice bags, bread, batteries, and instant ramen.
But, sitting at the table, with a crust of bread and a half-empty bottle of vodka, she has nothing to offer us except her increasingly feverish speech, laced with insults.
Unfortunately, they also were assigned to our waitress, whom we rarely saw after that: We had to pour our own wine, received no refill of an empty bread basket and had to ask three times for more coffee.
Dirty spoons, empty cantaloupe rinds, half-eaten lollipops and clumsily cut slices of bread are her trade.
