We don't need dehydrated apples instead of fresh apples!
The landlady had rebuked the cook for serving us juice from pulp instead of fresh fruit.
"They insisted on using banana pulp instead of fresh banana and things like that," Mr. Rosenberg said.
One in three Italian households has cut food spending, both in terms of quantity and/or quality, opting for processed food instead of fresh fruits and vegetables.
And mixed with walnuts they stud a dark quick tea loaf, which, out of season, can be made with pitted prunes instead of fresh plums.
They blame schools for cutting physical education programs and for stocking the cafeterias with junk food instead of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Some hotels are reacting to this by trimming non-essential spending; using potted plants as decorations, for example, instead of fresh flowers that have to be replaced every day.Just like flowers, servants are being pruned.
One commenter, appearing under the journalistic nomme de plume Hildy Johnson, wrote, "I've tried filling the void with Bon Appetit or Saveur, but it's like eating nonfat yogurt instead of fresh custard".
The trompe l'oeil fruit-and-vegetable portraits of Arcimboldo are precedents, although instead of fresh produce, Mr. Nutt gathers scraps from the dustbin of Cubism and Surrealism, assembling them into faces that also hint at landscapes, architectural edifices and sculpture.
Really ripe cherries went into a bowlful of ricotta sweetened with kirsch and chunks of chocolate, a fast idea borrowed from the British food writer Sophie Grigson, who uses candied orange peel instead of fresh fruit.
