Celery leaves, or indeed Hopkinson's chopped stalks, prove too savoury for the panel, competing, they say, with the bivalve itself, which seems to have suffered too much to be overshadowed by a mere vegetable.
When you heard about the recent outbreak of infections caused by Salmonella-tainted tomatoes, odds are you were surprised a mere vegetable was at the heart of the scare.
Those who have studied the mere animal and vegetable Creation demonstrate that nothing can be more harmonious and beautiful!
Today, by contrast, the mean intake of vegetables is a mere 128g per person, which adds up to just over one and a half portions.
CHIÓ The healthful Mediterranean notion that meat and fish should be mere condiments on plates of vegetables and grains will be put into practice by Alex McWilliams, the executive chef at this new Italian place in Brooklyn (pronounced kee-OH).
It's a measure of how far behind we have left our rural roots that something considered as banal as a vegetable patch a mere 60 years ago is newsworthy today.
Albertine becomes a mere plaything of the rich, sick aesthete – vegetable rather than lover.
"The mere smoking of a small amount of vegetable material could completely invert the structures of my personality and socialize me, as it were, into a reasonably functioning member of the community in which I found myself".
The sleek, front-pocket weekend wallet ($95), fashioned from Italian vegetable-tanned Dolce leather, is a mere 1/4-inch thick.
Vegetables that in other places would be mere filler — the bell peppers, the onions — here are prepared to exacting degrees of crisp.
