olio

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Use them to top a classic Italian-style pasta such as aglio e olio for a big punch of sweet, caramelized flavor and crunch.

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

My father would bathe in spaghetti aglio olio if it weren't frowned upon.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2021

While my parents made sure that I hadn’t poisoned my grandmother, I went back to the kitchen and whipped up a simple spaghetti aglio e olio, which I secretly preferred to chanterelles.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

But I believe I had Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez’s blessing for my Cal-Peru-Ecuador olio.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2018

A pudding-sauce well-known of yore, When folks were frugal, though not poor; An olio mixt of sweet and sour.

From An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects by Bloomfield, Nathaniel