Sentence examples for poor dish from inspiring English sources

So why pick on the poor dish?

Alas, even her interpretation couldn't lift this poor dish out of sludgedom.

And Ken Albala, a food historian at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., pointed me to "Apicius Redivivus or the Cook's Oracle," a 19th-century cookbook in which one critic is quoted as saying, "What can any person suppose to be the meaning of a shoulder of lamb in epigram, unless it were a poor dish, for a Penniless Poet?" Meow!

This week Mr Renzi tweeted a picture of his desk, meant to show he was hard at work (hashtagged #lavoltabuona, or #thetimeisright), but some saw only a disorganised jumble of papers, pens, highlighters and half-drunk orange juice.Mr Renzi's clearest achievement has been tax relief worth €80 ($110) a month to poor workers, dished out in May, just in time for the European election.

This is the place to try some of Florence's disappearing signature dishes, such as taccole flatbeans in tomato and garlic, and penne strascicate, a poor man's dish of pasta tossed – or dragged – in a pan of leftover meat sauce.

It was a poor man's dish.

Soon enough, most every family — no matter how rich or poor — had a dish at home.

The scialatielli alla boscaiola (a "poor man's" dish of wide uneven noodles with mushrooms), the sausages seasoned with chili peppers, rosemary and anise, and the local bitter broccoli added up to my best meal of the trip.

One of these is made with an unusual Calabrian pasta called struncatura, once a poor people's dish made from the remains of wheat and bran after the milling process.

But the poor health care dished out to the 44m-odd Americans who lack any regular health-insurance coverage drags down the country's ranking.

Illicit television satellite dishes are common, and symptomatic of a recurring Catch-22 that thwarts Bird's fact-finding: "About half the people I met, ranging from the upper middle class to the working poor, had illegal dishes hidden on their roofs -- and told me that everyone did.