On those English Sundays, the knowledge that all the shops were religiously shut (even the little back-alley record shop where my best friend and I fingered the new LPs) simmered like a sullen summer heat and made me lethargic.
Her scenes with Boleyn (the seductively dark-toned mezzo-soprano Jennifer Holloway) may lack the demented spark of the lady-on-lady confrontations in Donizetti's Tudor operas, but they simmer, like the opera itself, with channeled passion.
But there's a potentially uncomfortable conversation to be had about Southern comfort food, one that has simmered like creamy gravy on a stove top for perhaps 20 years and may now reach a very public boil: how much of what is called Southern cooking can be traced to black culture, and how much to white?
Military analysts warn that simmering disputes like this could adversely affect the missions in Libya and elsewhere.
Nevertheless, the future success of more reliable renegades like Senator Warren depends on their being able to capitalise on simmering party divisions like this – arguably in much the same way that the Tea Party has leveraged power among Republicans so successfully in recent years.
It all buzzes by fast and snappy, with duel-like dialogue, simmering casual sex and a needed dose of grubby, jaded humanity provided by Paul Giamatti and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
He also gives a number of useful tips, like simmering cauliflower in milk and water to lessen its odor.
It reflects the deep frustration by the country's rulers at the political stalemate, which has diverted attention from economic development proposals and other issues, like simmering labor unrest.
Ashley's mother, Cristina Moreno, said that she joined her daughter after school and that she had attended a meeting for parents, where she was taught healthy cooking techniques, like simmering meat without lard and switching from flour tortillas to corn tortillas, which have less fat and fewer calories.
