savory
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Dinner tasted rich and savory and faintly sweet, the sort of thing I would have been delighted to order at a neighborhood restaurant.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Into a casserole dish it went, where the top crisped and the center went soft and savory.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
If you can imagine it folded into a strata, gratin or savory bread pudding, chances are it has a home here, too.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
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
The larder mistress brought her tray of loaves with many savory slices, and she gave the best, to tempt me.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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
It is easily consumed in small pieces, like a tray of sweets and savories.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2014
Seattle shops offer sweets and savories Trend-spotters are convinced that in 2011, pie is the new cupcake, and two new Seattle bakeshops are busy proving those prognosticators right.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2011
These can include little savories like coconut shrimp, a staple here, and earthy mushroom ravioli.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2010
The larder mistress brought her tray of loaves and savories, dispensing each.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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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