In addition there are the smaller details to account for, like the basket of lacquered vegetables (exactly what kind is a matter of backstage debate: zucchini, okra, bitter melon?), stacks of fake dollar bills, carts with hanging fish and trays of jewelry.
Braised veal cheeks, in a tomato-wine sauce with root vegetables, is exactly the kind of dish, homey and flavorful, that you enter a brasserie hoping to find, especially in March.
Zapping vegetables is not exactly the sort of thing you'd expect to liven up a show, but then again, "C.S.I". is not a typical show.
One knows exactly what vegetables go into a killer get-the-hell-out-of-bed smoothie.
*Daily increase in weight of fruit and vegetables consumption is not exactly 100 g, as total calorie consumption is assumed to remain the same meaning a small reduction in consumption from other fruits and vegetables.
Statements like "People know that vegetables can improve health" overestimate exactly what we know about American's understanding of vegetable consumption and health.
But what, exactly, is a vegetable?
All main course selections arrived with exactly the same vegetable accompaniments, a letdown after the imaginatively turned out openers.
Paradoxically, he then added, "That must have been an accident". For the record, artichokes aren't exactly the smallest vegetable available.
Of course, using vegetables in dessert is not exactly new – beetroot and choc has long been a classic pairing, sweet potato pie was a Southern favourite of Elvis's, apparently - according to Are You Hungry Tonight? - while over on the Amalfi Coast, the classic mulegane c'a' ciucculata (aubgerine and chocolate) is so highly regarded that it is scoffed to celebrate the assumption of the Virgin Mary.
