When I moved from Newham to a small village in Lincolnshire two years ago, to get away from motorways and things, I was surprised by how neighbours would leave their spare vegetables and fruit outside my bungalow door.
The little something, on this occasion, was going to be crabmeat, and, in the spirit of the dish, Mario proceeded to collect what was on hand — tomato pulp and liquid (left over from tomatoes that had been roasted), plus any spare vegetables.
WHAT WE LIKED Egg-drop soup, spare ribs, vegetable spring rolls, fried pork dumpling, steamed shrimp dumplings, spicy fried brown rice with soft egg, sautéed shrimp, Peking roast duck, tangerine beef, ginger cheesecake, coconut rice pudding, chamomile citron tea.
Gasoline, rice, cement, steel, vegetables, spare parts—everything has to pass on one road, on one day.
(In what's left of his spare time, he grows vegetables on his farm outside Seoul).
WHAT WE LIKE Edamame, hiyashi wakame, agedashi tofu, vegetable tempura, fried spare ribs, Peking duck, tuna cake, super spider roll, super yellowtail roll, vegetable roll.
Dinners (catfish $10.50, whiting $9.75, chicken $8.75, spare ribs $9.75) include two vegetables and a generous hunk of cornbread.
The Met orchestra, with moaning strings and horns, sounds as though it was reared on kvass and root vegetables; George Tsypin's spare sets make room for the awesome mise-en-scène.
Panels up to 32 feet long (with five- and six-figure prices, and on view from Wednesday until Nov. 19) are streaked with Impressionist vines and vegetables or are spare in the Modernist manner, dotted with peacocks and shrubs in fields of gold.
Sette ($19), Macari's smoky, plump, rustic everyday red, goes with grilled vegetables, hamburgers, steaks, lamb, spare ribs and chicken.
They bring a just-in-time supply of skills, too, which is why hospitals want to hire foreign doctors and nurses; farmers, spare hands to pick fruit and vegetables; and wealthy couples, nannies for their children.
