Down another staircase, into another windowless room, where dishes arrived: pork braised in brown sauce, bok choy, egg-drop soup, spicy chicken.

NEWYORKER: The Grand Tour

It was only eleven-thirty, but there was a whole carp in brown sauce, chicken and beef dishes, and Styrofoam crates of freshly steamed rice.

NEWYORKER: The Olympian

Parent brand Heinz reduced the salt in the popular brown sauce in November 2010, but it wasn't until September 2011 that the hullabaloo over the salt loss commenced.

BBC: The recipe rage problem

"As a result of the merger, retail customers and consumers could suffer from less competition resulting in higher prices for products such as HP brown sauce, tomato ketchup and baked beans, " said Vincent Smith, the OFT's head of competition enforcement.

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And, this way, for the rest of his life -- be it in the fraternity house, his bachelor pad, or his family's home, as he frantically tries to feed his own growing offspring -- when he opens that front door, smiles at the delivery person, and smells the chicken and broccoli in brown sauce, the kid will think of me.

CNN: Coming to terms with dinner

Choose your own ingredients from tender squid, plump prawns or juicy pork, topped off with bonito (fish) flakes, a thick brown okonomiyaki sauce and mayonnaise.

BBC: Japan��s spirited third city

Continuing the theme of found food, a soft-shell crab is presented as an edible beach treasure, surrounded by amaranth grains for sand and brown-butter sauce for seawater.

NEWYORKER: Atera

Or head over to another historical spot, the Brown Hotel , where you can soak up all that booze with the one and only Hot Brown -- an open-face sandwich casserole layered with bacon and Mournay sauce -- at the English Grill.

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