Mary Magdalene is not in the lineup at the Last Supper table because she's bustling about in the kitchen, making horseradish dip, serving platters of roast lamb with coriander relish and unleavened bread.
The Humble Cup is a single serving of roasted ground coffee that comes in a filter and dripper in one (sort of like a tea bag with wings).
The daily prix fixe menu is bistrolike: The mussels are super, cooked with onions and herbs and served with credible frites, and the daily meat dishes seem equally so; on my last visit I was served slices of roast veal, with potatoes campagne (which just means cooked in a pan) and delicious zucchini with Parmesan.
A must-try from the menu is the shish kebab, the small cubes of lamb meat served on roasted aubergine purée.
In China, some bars serve bowls of roasted crickets instead of peanuts; in Mexico, people order grasshoppers fried with chiles and lime; in the Democratic Republic of Congo, caterpillars are a dietary staple.
A 1949 McCall's magazine article about the Sortwell family Thanksgiving in Wiscasset highlighted the family's 150-year history of serving New England roast turkey on "a damask-covered table heavy with the good fruits of the land". The photograph could have been made in Boston or Marblehead.
A sauce made with Burgundy accompanying a six-ounce serving of pot roast retained 5percentt of its alcohol after it had simmered for 2 1/2 hours.
In between the banks of fake futuristic machinery, flashing lights, plastic sheeting backdrops and neon adverts for the album, the allegedly elite guests wandered between the bar and the man serving a mixture of roast beef and buns.
Gyro, a Greek dish of roasted meat served in a pita, usually with tomato, onion, and tzatziki, a cold, creamy sauce made from yogurt, cucumber, garlic, and various spices.
Wolters regarded his mother as "a highly practical woman, full of zest for life, who in hard times thought nothing of serving a delicious roast without letting on it was horsemeat".
