The worst dishes smack, endearingly but unfortunately, of a freegan potluck, marked by wildly incongruous combinations like butter-poached squid atop smashed stone fruit, and fettuccine with hunks of blue cheese, sunflower seeds, and roasted peaches, drowning in brown butter.
That meant labouring on government hydro-electricity stations or smashing stones on other building sites under-paid jobsites under-paidisitioned labour could fill.
One sunny afternoon I had taken a ride into the countryside where Mary grew up and was horrified to see peasants struggling to eek out a living from the fields and rivers, smashing stones for road construction companies for less than a dollar a day.
However, within a few centuries, the Carthaginians (from what is now Tunisia) invaded Sardinia – and archaeologists suspect that it was they who smashed the stone warriors (and stone models of native fortress shrines) into five thousand fragments.
ART SMASHED -- Vandals, striking again at the priceless outdoor art of Italy, have smashed a stone bee adorning a Bernini fountain in central Rome, Reuters reported.
Protesters smashed the stone lion and unicorn on the embassy gates at the ambassadorial residence, where in 1943 a dinner was held for Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt -- the first meeting between the leaders of Britain, Russia and the United States to discuss their strategy for winning World War Two.
The simplest implements, known to their discoverers as "choppers," were sharpened stones made by smashing one stone against another.
I was getting smashed and stoned out of my head most evenings, standing on tables, waiting to get shagged.
One, for instance, consisted of three deliberately smashed quern-stones, while another was made up of iron agricultural tools.
Rather's correspondent, Bob Schieffer, said in his subsequent package that a Canadian TV crew had its car kicked and rocked, and an ABC camera team's car was smashed with stones.
It either uses the stone as an anvil by lying on its back and hitting the shell against the stone on its chest, or as a hammer by smashing the stone against abalone to break them free from rocks.
