Tart, thick-skinned apples like Jonathans, Rome, Melrose, Fuji, and Granny Smiths are usually your best bet.
For dessert, wander back to bubo for more sweets, like a tartalata de xocolata (chocolate tart), a thick bittersweet chocolate mousse on a biscuit topped with a swirl of chocolate "noodles" (3.35 euros).
The results — that paccheri, for example, in a tart tomato sauce thick with shreds of gamy wild boar — are, if not quite spectacular, worthy of the spectacle.
But the flourless chocolate torte was dried out and flaky, and the crust on a tangy lemon meringue tart had the thick texture of cardboard.
There are also unusual sandwiches, like the tart combination of thick slices of grilled chicken breast on ciabatta with arugula, sage, parsley and green olive tapenade.
A thick, quichelike tart of caramelized onion and goat cheese was airy and tasty.
PIERRE-YVES TIJOU, CLOS DES PERRIERES 1996: $23 Apple and mineral aromas; rich, thick texture; tart citrus flavor.
Mr. Carter's 1981 setting of six Lowell poems is uncompromisingly complex music, thick with tart atonal harmony, ingeniously intertwining counterpoint and rhythmic dislocations galore.
Not in their original, austere incarnation, but vamped up with a slick of tart cherry jam, a thick layer of luscious dark chocolate ganache, and a salty sprinkle of fleur de sel.
