• She dislikes really sweet or bitter foods and the slimy texture of fat on meat.

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  • Such a meal also should balance tastes savory, a little sour or bitter maybe, perhaps some sweet and salt and textures, from chewy to succulent to crisp.

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  • With a bite and a sweet or bitter truth.

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  • The evening meal consists of a dozen small plates, including spicy curries made from whatever was freshest at the market, such as young jackfruit, okra, pumpkin or bitter melon, and the Rawana speciality, a rich garlic curry simmered in a pressure cooker until soft and creamy.

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  • In the dimly lit space, complete with vintage-style wallpaper and velvet seating, the expert mixologists serve a concise menu of unusual drinks, such as the spicy yet refreshing Concombre Fumant, a mix of tequila, fresh cucumber and homemade chilli syrup, or the bitter Salers Smach, which features the old-fashioned tipple, Gentiane, made with the flower of the same name, alongside absinthe, Champagne and fresh mint.

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  • That way, you can get clear direction from your supervisor instead of toiling away every night until you get bitter or burned out.

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  • But the play is not bitter or cynical.

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  • She is a modern day heroine, who took highly constructive, courageous action to save countless other women from her fate rather than becoming bitter or debilitated by a devastating late breast cancer diagnosis and grueling treatment regimen.

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  • But other research suggests that seeing color can be something like tasting foods -- a pleasant flavor for one person may be too bitter or salty for another, just like a single shade of yellow could be seen as pretty or putrid by different people.

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  • For children, at least in our family, the main event wasn't the service, or snacking on the symbolic bitter herbs, hard-boiled eggs or sweet charoset (a paste made from apples and nuts), or even dinner.

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  • Vegetables typically included stuffed mushrooms or stuffed peppers and a sauteed bitter green, such as broccoli rabe or escarole with beans.

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  • "Green tea should only be brewed for two minutes or it starts to get bitter, " he says.

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  • But the crime, the looting, and the other betrayals of societal trust are what often sting the worst, or at least leave the most bitter taste in peoples mouths.

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  • They forget the childhood lesson about people not being better or worse because of what they wear or own, and let themselves become bitter and resentful.

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  • Another common test, which can be purchased online, is to give people a particularly bitter chemical such as PROP or PTC, which are similar to a compound found in many dark-green vegetables.

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  • You can remain where you are, in the old world, tasting the bitter berries of disenchantment, or you can overcome yourself, rip yourself free of the word-lie, and enter the world that longs to take you in.

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  • Another is whether India has definitively left the problems of its subcontinent behind it, or will again be held back by the bitter disputes with its neighbours.

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  • In the letters that they wrote home they spoke of the horrors of war and the bravery it summoned -- how they endured the slaughter of the trenches and the chaos of beach landings, the bitter cold of a Korean winter or the endless heat of a Vietnam jungle.

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  • Some vitamin pills can be crushed and swallowed or mixed with food, although they may taste bitter because they are designed to be swallowed whole and not tasted.

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  • She is either going to be brilliant and groundbreaking, or will soon be the target of unattributed quotes by bitter staffers shifting blame in all the Making of the President 2008 books.

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  • The cost of regurgitating bitter, often illiterate ex-prisoners without money, housing or hope of a job back into real life, seldom features in official calculations.

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  • But no matter how hard officials or aid workers try to inject some Easter spirit into the day, it remains bitter for many.

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  • At other times he confided in the Diary his bitter feelings towards scientists whom he believed had stolen his ideas and inventions or deliberately under represented his achievements and contribution.

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  • Among the 30 or so people waiting outside the shiny riverside buildings at St George Wharf in the bitter cold were students Hiam Aldroubi, 22, and Reem Binkhamis, 25.

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  • It can be described as a shortcut to umami, the so-called fifth flavor (in addition to sweet, sour, bitter and salt), which in turn is often described as savory or meaty.

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  • The argument, based on the bitter experience of 2009, went like this: Better to have 54 or 55 Democrats who might actually want to get something done than to worry about building a super-majority on the "strength" of conservative members who enthusiastically support unnecessary wars, free trade and misguided domestic economic policies.

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  • These people become bitter at what surrounds them everyplace in real life, yet they hardly seem to notice or care.

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  • Although bitter, resentful and full of despair, they see others, often the former boss or supervisor, as the people who are to blame for their miserable existence.

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  • We're up against decades of bitter partisanship that cause politicians to demonize their opponents instead of coming together to make college affordable or energy cleaner.

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