It is as close to carnal as vegetables can get, the meaty eggplant taking on the brooding sweet-sour character of the black garlic.
Both have that typically Italianate sweet-sour character which will work so well with the tomato base of Joseph's zuppa di frascarelli e fave.
When the drink is deeply cold, its focus shifts vividly to its cleansing, racy, grapefruity acidity, which shapes its tart "sweet -and-sour character and a finisweet -and-sourthat it sweet -and-sour.
Mostly sour, bitter, character assassination.
By E. Pope and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, October 14, 1939 P. 13 A Bostonian who dropped in at his neighborhood movie-house to see "Angels Wash Their Faces," a picture featuring the "Dead End" young men, reports that he found a seat beside a sour, sober character who remained silent until the first appearance of Eduardo Cianelli.
He was very unhappy and often very unpleasant – it sours the character, this sort of thing".
But the sour, dispirited characters, who convene at a mansion in Devon in December 1932 for the nuptials of Dolly (Felicity Jones), the elder and prettier of Hetty's two daughters, have none of the spunk of the aristocrats on "Downton Abbey".
She is marvelous, in the play's best single speech, describing a long flirtation that goes sour when her character's platonic lover becomes a family man.
When cooked by mad word scientists like Glen Duncan — whose new horror novel, "Talulla Rising," is a sequel to "The Last Werewolf" — this harmonic hybrid delivers sweet (plot), salty (character), sour (emotional pathos), bitter (psychological probity) and umami (stylistic and linguistic panache).
At first, we think we are watching an acerbic and sour comedy about characters so obsessed with their next movie or book launch that they've lost all sense of morality and perspective.
