savory
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The caramels’ deep notes of browned butter and toasted vanilla is almost savory on the finish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
I had two sourdough heels, two eggs and some cream, which meant I had the beginnings of either a sweet or savory strata.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
People can get strangely dismissive about bouillon and gravy mix, as if savory flavor becomes less legitimate when it arrives in powder form.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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
So when the pig was done, the spit no longer to be turned, the table garnished, everyone sat down to feast on all the savory flesh he craved.
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
In the front of this new addition to the growing seaport district is an array of Indian sweets that the chef and owner, Surbhi Sahni, sold before adding savories to her online delivery company.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 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
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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