Sentence examples for hop shoot from inspiring English sources

(The hop shoot sells for as much as €1,000 a kilo).

In fact, according to the people at the London Hop Shoot festival, since the weekend, they've been inundated with request for hop shoots from chefs "who have just woken up to a really unique ingredient they could start using".

"They're a bit like nettles," offers Daniel Doherty, head chef of Duck and Waffle as I try the dish he is offering as part of London Hop Shoot festival.

"They cost so much because they're absolutely back-breaking to harvest," explains Melissa Cole, who distributed hundreds of shoots to London restaurants last week, as part of a two-day London Hop Shoot festival – organised by the London Brewer's Alliance to raise awareness of the vegetable.

In Britain, hop shoots are still treated as a waste product: left to wither by brewers who consider their harvesting to be financially unviable.

In Belgium and Holland, you can pay up to €1,000£72020) a kilo of hop shoots: the green tips of the hop plant – harvested from the parts of the plant that won't go on to produce the flowers used in creating beer.

Written before tomatoes and chillies became popular, it can be comically outdated (lentils are very bad for you, apparently, and "only eaten by the lowest of the low") but there are some very relevant, simple and intriguing recipe suggestions on everything from broad beans to hop shoots.

Moreover, the food Richardson temptingly describes - the wild mushrooms and farm cheeses, the hop shoots, saffron cakes and legs of happy organic lamb - and the power of his case for old, real, good natural food, easily compensate for moments of self-indulgence and an odd emphasis on 'hearty, masculine' ingredients (as opposed to food for 'homosexual waiters'ladieses' and 'till girls').

In the new hip-hop shoot-'em-up buddy comedy, "All About the Benjamins," Ice Cube plays a freelance bounty hunter named Bucum (pronounced "book 'em"), who gets mixed up in some very violent, very lucrative and fairly confusing business involving stolen diamonds and a lost lottery ticket.

Hops shoots are next.

Indeed, the best way to appreciate this fascinating but uneven film may be to resist it, to watch it unfold in the persistent, persistently thwarted expectation that it will erupt into the hip-hop Mafia shoot-'em-up it stubbornly refuses to be.