Like a good soup, the more you boil a complex subject to its essences, the richer the experience.

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But I've made an effort to streamline them down to their essences.

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My essences and syrups cried out for experimentation, but on humid midsummer afternoons a single concoction was enough to set curious effects in motion.

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His writing is always clear, lively and personal, as it is in his latest book, "Surfaces and Essences, " written with a younger colleague, Emmanuel Sander, a French psychologist.

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Because the best abstract art has the power to cut through the rigid conventions of direct representation and externalize interior essences to show us things not as they look, but as they are.

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Her customers have come up with new ideas, inspired by her product, and such collaborations have resulted in additional products, including Rooibos tea with Blyss cocoa beans and bath essences with Blyss cocoa extract.

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Redbreast is heavy on fruit essences, figs, dates, and apples, and is unusually complex and big as Irish whiskies go, and is the one most likely to be confused with Scotch in a blind tasting.

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It's cream that's thickening on the verge of turning into sweet butter or souring into sour cream but it has instead decided to clump together its richest essences into buttery solids in the thick, silky, creamy liquid.

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Things had essences, constantly revealed.

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