Sentence examples for in a roast from inspiring English sources
Curb Your Enthusiasm's Susie Essman credits her role in a roast for securing her part in Larry David's show as the foul-mouthed wife of his browbeaten manager.
And the meat in a roast pork sandwich I had on another day was nearly as sweet and soft as those plantains.
In a roast on his brilliant but short-lived 1977 variety series, "The Richard Pryor Show" — in which he irreverently imagines the first black president years before Eddie Murphy did in "Delirious" — Sandra Bernhard said Pryor never sold out, adding the punch line: "He shuffles to a beat of a different drummer".
A few pinches of salt resuscitated two entrees: a lightly packed, crusty-surfaced meatloaf ($15) perched on a pool of mashed potatoes, ringed by peas and rather hard undercooked carrots in a mushroom gravy; and a generous bowl of rigatoni ($15) with chunks, not bits and pieces of herbed chicken, portobello mushrooms and peas in a roast garlic cream.
(Eggs coddled in a slow cooker for 12 hours, she reports, may turn the whites beige, but "the yolks turn firm but creamy".) And she makes free use of this year's must-have gadget, a remote temperature probe: you stick a needle in a roast, shut the door on a wire that's connected to a digital readout and wait for a ding when the desired temperature is reached.
It seems ridiculous to refrain from spoilers when this story is a chestnut of American history and will end only in a roast turkey, but the details of the Pilgrims crossing what they ate on the Mayflower, how cramped it was, who was born en route and the astronomical cost of the voyage have surely escaped your memory and are in any case thrilling to see rendered in living color.
