The third significant snowfall of the winter -- and the first on a weekday -- blanketed the region yesterday with a torrent of white flakes as big as cocktail napkins, making a quick mess of the northern and western suburbs, where schools closed, businesses shuttered early and highways were littered with spun-out cars and flipped vans.
They make me feel very welcome, showing me the "snow room", where every visitor to Monkswell Manor gets a heavy coating of white flakes (made from carpet foam) before going on stage; they even offer to let me crank the historic wind machine (as used in the original production) and take me to a Soho pub afterwards for their traditional Wednesday night sing-song.
The season of perpetual hope, usually filled with happy celebrations of white flakes and cups of hot cocoa, came to a screeching halt.
The bag was very old and falling apart and the shaking created lots of white flakes flying around in the air that looked exactly like snow.
You can taste the "half-eaten food, over which white flakes of fat had formed like seasonable frost".
Its floor is littered with blue and white flakes of peeled paint that evoke a vast Arctic ice pack.
Though tempted by the large, white flakes of haddock harpooned on the fork of a neighbouring diner, my wife and I wished to voyage deeper into the Captain's haul.
Ben Jacobsen started making sea salt professionally only last year, but the crystalline flakes coaxed from water he gathers from Netarts Bay on the Oregon coast have the elegance of a fine fleur de sel, the delicate crunch of Maldon and the blindingly white flakes of a Caribbean beach at noon.
East Los Angeles' Tamales Lilianas restaurant hews a little closer to what you'd expect from the dessert portion of the menu, its offering bedazzled with white flakes of coconut and lots of brightly colored sprinkles. .
2. Place the salmon in the oven and bake until the fish flakes and white bubbles of protein appear on the surface, 10 to 20 minutes, depending on the size of the fillets.
