In his hungry early years as a bricklayer, soldier and actor he was tall and lean – a "hollow-cheeked scrag", Thomas Dekker called him – but by middle age the celebrated playwright and poet had swelled to corpulence on the free dinners of patronage and gargantuan quantities of sweet Canary wine.
He had joined forces with Manfred Krankl, the Austrian-born founder of the Sine Qua Non winery in California, to make a small quantity of extraordinary sweet California wines, called Mr. K.
Just as in Beaujolais, which rested its business on marketing the popular nouveau wines until the public stopped buying them, sherry depended on exporting vast quantities of cheap, sweet wines.
In the end, the gross quantity of Shelby's pulled pork for sweet home Alabama beat out newbie Brown for the best and most headlines.
It was made by bartender Alex Kammerling using pink grapefruit juice and elderflower cordial topped up with soda – you can juggle around with the quantities until the balance of sweet and sour suits your taste – and was so good it kept me from the perilous third martini of the night.
Minute quantities of late-harvested sweet wines had always been made in Alsace, but by the mid-20th century, quality levels were no longer enforced, and myriad mediocre wines were being sold under generic German terms like spätlese and auslese.
Not that all the residents conducted themselves in suitably monastic ways: The patient population included quantities of what Dr. Sweet calls Bad Boys and Bad Girls, the substance-addled, impossibly behaved denizens of the city's streets whose chronic medical conditions had forced their game indoors.
In contrast, the main consumption of both sugary and acidic beverages or sweets in the present study increased the quantity of dental plaque, which was significantly associated with higher DE prevalence.
Seared scallops with shiitakes, a special one night, were nicely teamed with shallots, garlic, sage and sweet sun-dried tomatoes, but again, the quantity of sauce overwhelmed the subtlety of the seafood.
