Short stories too showed great disparities, from the fine etchings of small, ever-recurring sins in Margaret Atwood's Moral Disorder to the odd-angled humour of Vincent Lam's fantastical Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures to Carol Windley's precise and disciplined Home Schooling, in which home truths, both bitter and sweet, were learned by teachers and students alike.
If longevity is one factor as to why Dolcetto consistently ranks behind other Piedmont reds, consider that the word Dolcetto in Italian means "little sweet one". Learn that bit of Italian and you may think that Dolcetto is a sweet red wine.
In the recording, Russell explains that he doesn't want to hurt anyone, but rambles on about doing "barrel rolls," "sweet nothings," learning to fly from "video games," getting possible prison time or a job as a pilot for the stunt, seeing the orca that had been carrying her dead calf around, and hoping to glean a "moment of serenity" before taking the plane "nose down" to "call it a night".
The selection includes custard-filled znoud el-sit, cheesy kunafa, Iraqi delight and Turkish-style sweets that Alnajjar learned to make in Turkey while waiting for his refugee visa to process.
But at the top of my list are parsnips and sweet potatoes never, I've learned, to be confused with the ubiquitous and lowly yams that appear at my corner store marked "sweet potatoes" around Thanksgiving.
I have tried: I toyed once with some shrimp in the sweet potato curry, but learned my lesson.
She uses broccoli rabe instead of aka takana (spicy mustard greens), shops in the Caribbean markets of her Washington Heights neighborhood for batatas rather than Japanese satsumaimo (yellow sweet potatoes), and has learned to love the local mofongo, the Dominican version of mashed plantains with lots of garlic.
I first learned of sweet potato pie while serving in the United States Marine Corps.
Finally, we learned that Sweet 'N Low has cream of tartar in it.
She also said his face "lit up" when he learned the sweet yellow fluffball was named after him.
"My first language was Spanish, learned from sweet stories told by my papi at bedtime," she says in the video.
