It was succulent and sweet, unlike a dish of rather difficult to eat short ribs stewed in soy and rock candy, whose description declared, "It is authentic".
The only thing she put on her plate was a single crayfish, which she did not touch, as if it were something to look at rather than to eat.
It occurred to me three-quarters of the way through that the bear was all on his own in the cave, and might have wanted some company rather than to eat the children.
The judges approved of the pastry but found these an odd concept for a Christmas snack (asparagus in winter?), and, with their awkward prongs of asparagus, rather difficult to eat.
In her introduction, David wrote: Summer Cooking reflected David's strong belief in eating food in season; she loved "the pleasure of rediscovering each season's vegetables" and thought it "rather dull to eat the same food all year round".
This book, her fourth, reflected her strong belief in eating food in season; she loved "the pleasure of rediscovering each season's vegetables" and thought it "rather dull to eat the same food all year round".
"For one month we eat to live, rather than live to eat," he said.
I wanted to avoid killing animals just because I wanted – rather than needed – to eat them.
(Wouldn't they rather have something to eat? she asks, politely).
Rather, we evolved to eat that archaic and yet astonishing array of plants and animals and fungi that most of us are still happy to call food.
