While snow blanketed the city, two concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the weekend focused on the warm essence of melodrama.
There are nights when "The Children's Hour," as Longfellow dubbed it, is the sweet, warm essence of all the reasons you had children, but also nights, as Adam Mansbach's satirical best seller has captured, when you would give anything for them to "Go the ____ to Sleep".
To serve, place a spoonful of warm beet essence in center of each of 6 plates.
Recent offerings at iNG include popcorn puffed on a wood-burning grill and seasoned with cider vinegar; grilled salmon served under a bell jar filled with wood smoke; and tender, smoky baby back ribs skewered on slender pipettes of a warm brothy essence of barbecue sauce.
(This makes more filling than is required, so after you've assembled the pirozhki, use the excess filling and pastry offcuts to give yourself a treat: roll out the dough, stuff with the remaining filling, fold over and seal in a semicircular shape, then bake until golden all over, cool and eat just warm - in essence, it's a kind of bridie, a delicious Scottish savoury pie).
And many hopeful, hurting Catholics will be left where they were under Benedict: with a faith whose essence warms them, but whose formal administration leaves them cold.
To the Editor: Re "The Conclave's Fixed Ways" (column, March 12): Frank Bruni speaks for many when he says that many Catholics are left "with a faith whose essence warms them, but whose formal administration leaves them cold".
If your body mist isn't very strong, leave the flowers in longer and add drops of vanilla essence for warm undertones.
This is true of all productions at 59E59, including the annual East to Edinburgh Festival, also founded by Ms. Kleinhans (this year's version ended on Sunday) and consisting in essence of warm-up performances for a handful of American productions, mostly based in New York, headed to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The mounds, rounds or rolls of pearly white, sweet-sour, just warm rice are the real essence of sushi.
Yet when I saw his photographs for Ruth Rogers' first River Café Cookbook, which perfectly captured the essence of her warm and convivial restaurant, I knew that he had passed from the amateur to the professional.
