I hallucinated mounds of grain, piles of nuts, and luscious chunks of apple.
They gave wild Eurasian magpies two piles of nuts.
And everywhere were piles of junk: nuts and bolts, springs, batteries, empty soda bottles, a plastic hair band, a harmonica, a thermometer, all sleeping quietly in the dust.
In a furious confusion of dust and whirling wings, about 50 hyacinth macaws, three and a half feet long, descend in purple flashes onto piles of palm nuts that Lourival has put out.
"Instead, all objects prompted responses indicating neophobia, fear of new things, in the birds". After control tests without objects had been carried out, two loose piles of edible nuts were placed on the ground near the shiny and non-shiny objects.
I have to be dragged out of the turron shops, vintage lovelies heaving with piles of honeyed nut sweetmeats, or the horchaterias for the town's beloved chufa (tigernut) milk drink, sold with – don't snigger – fartons: long sugary buns for dipping.
Read the paper over a long black and, if you crave something sweet, order the French Kiss: brioche French toast under a pile of caramelized banana, toffeed nuts and salty bacon (18 Australian dollars).
If I was going to write a diet book (I'm not), I would call it The Bonobo Diet, and it would recommend that we all sit in extended family groups, for a couple of hours every day, eating a large pile of something good: apples one day, nuts the next, perhaps roast chicken the day after that.
MOMOFUKU KO'S FROZEN FOIE GRAS David Chang turned a classic torchon into flakes piled high, like an incongruously fatty and liver-y Sno-Kone, over a brittle of nuts and a sweet wine gelée.
(Also: nuts. Eat lots of nuts, basically).
