It began, as it always does, with rivers of milk and has since settled into anything carb-heavy, creamy and unchallenging, preferably anchored by pasta, bread or rice.
Except that it might not be--because when we're stressed we tend to order the heavier, creamy and carby dishes--and yeah, an entire basket of naan.
H. arborescens Grandiflora, for example, found growing wild in Ohio around 1800, produces big creamy flower heads so heavy they droop on their stems.
The dining-hall fare was mostly New England-inflected, heavy and creamy, unpredictably salty or sweet.
Even the Euro Asian salad, with its straightforward greens, beets, blue cheese and walnuts, was overpowered by a heavy handed creamy balsamic dressing.
As they work their way down from Liguria, through Rome and Amalfi and Capri, so the meals lighten from heavy quail, creamy ravioli, roasted lamb, to calamari, linguine, lobster, accompanied by sunshine-coloured wines.
Made with five different cheeses and orecchiette, it was wonderfully cheesy with an unusually sophisticated, complex flavor; neither heavy nor creamy, luxuriant without being wet, and the pasta cooked just right.
