savory
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Mr. Turturro brings a savory humor and pathos to the scene, while Mr. Giamatti’s preening lecturing has a contrasting comic officiousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Available starting at 8 p.m., the menu begins with a pillowy confection that straddles the line between sweet and savory: a Japanese milk-bread sandwich layered with duck liver, raspberry, blackberry and whipped cream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Inside, tuna and onion cooked slowly until savory hits sweet, almost caramelized.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Gerry Sass was the owner of an Iowa radio station but also maintained a less savory second identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Eggs, pippins, savory, what else did she want?
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Mr. Chan, the former director of pastry operations at the International Culinary Center, is now the culinary director at Kitsby, a dessert bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where savories and sweets blend Asian and Western influences.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
It's so versatile and good for both savories and sweets: baklava, spinach pie, or even as a creative swap for pie dough!
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2021
The two collaborated on the savories, which for the most part are embellished comfort food; breads and desserts are the handiwork of Yard.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2014
It is easily consumed in small pieces, like a tray of sweets and savories.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2014
All around the cafeteria, children were stuffing themselves with their usual favorites—greasy foods, savories, and sweet treats—and guzzling chocolate milk and soft drinks.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Her savoriest late role was as Barbra Streisand’s haughty mother in the 1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces.
From Time ● Aug. 15, 2014
In 400 pages he has arranged the savoriest moments of the last 100 years in a bill-of-fare to suit the taste of journalistic historians, history-minded journalists and plain readers.
From Time Magazine Archive
All this time sit I, like Tantalus, with the savoriest of Domingo’s “beefysteaks” before me and am not allowed to taste it.
From Behind the Bungalow by Edward Hamilton Aitken
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