The thin-crusted pie is cooked quickly, with painstaking care, traditionally in a coal-fired oven, until the crust achieves a light, smoky crispness, the bottom barely charred.
Handmade by the batch in Dorset, England, Jack and Ollies' chips attain a light, golden crispness that not only allows their earthy, essential potato-osity to shine through but makes them perfect staging areas for the astonishingly natural flavors they carry: Sea Salt, Pesto (it genuinely tastes like basil and Parmesan) and the strangely enticing new Gorgonzola and Red Onion.
It finds a balance between density provided by oats and wheat, and a light and refreshing crispness that keeps it drinkable.
Other winners are the pappardelle with truffled ricotta, roasted mushrooms, and fennel salad ($16) served with an impressive light brown toasted crispness to the top layer, and the not-for-the-timid charceuterie board, presented on a wood block with four high quality meats and grooves in the wood designed to perfectly cradle the bread and condiment offerings.
Its selling point is supposed to be that it can shoot video, which is nice, but what thrilled me was its ability to take pictures in low light with an amazing crispness.
Mr. Abbado has a lovely light touch with a subtle crispness, like a very dry white wine (one was reminded of the quality of transparency that his uncle, Claudio, is said to have brought to the Berlin Philharmonic).
It's bright and clean, with a mouthwatering crispness and a light scent of strawberries.
It's a light that picks out lines with crispness: the lines being mainly those etched on the characters' careworn faces.
They are light and nutty with a just-baked crispness that works well with savory or sweet accompaniments.
