Instead of fruit-tree wood, the ducks here are cooked in an oven with straw as fuel.
If you're building a house from scratch, consider insulating it with straw bales or even denim.
Boys with straw boaters, girls with floaty dresses peddle their no-speed bicycles with books teetering from the baskets.
But the produce comes from the ranch of owners Catherine and Joe Bartolomei (sister and brother, not husband and wife) just up the road in Forestville, and a quartet of chickens roam the property. (Granted, they live in a peaked-roof house well padded with straw and furnished with a heat lamp.) Then there is that quintessential inn amenity, a house cat.
The crickets were even tickled with a straw stick before a fight to increase their aggression.
Selection on the Republican side is done with a straw vote of those attending.
It's not like one of those cruises where you come back with a straw hat and forget about it.
Lord Irvine may be famous for his rows, but the ones he has had with Mr Straw over juvenile justice have entered Whitehall folklore.
Instead of beds there are stalls filled high with fresh straw.
And under 25% is what happens when people are presented with Jack Straw's list of parties, rather than a system that allows them to pick people.
You have a normal vertical straw and someone comes along with a multilateral straw.
We have ethnic-inspired tunics, sandals with shells, straw bags, printed skirts, Missoni prints.
But police chiefs have defended the way they dealt with what Mr Straw said was "a very, very difficult situation".
"There are some important questions for Syria to answer and to deal with, " Straw told reporters at U.S. Central Command in Doha.
Titania could not conceive of the way they were made, except as distillations of sadness and heartbreak and despair, since that was how she made her own poisons, shaking drops of terror out of a wren captured in her fist, or sucking with a silver straw at the tears of a dog.
An eye-covering straw hat with blacked rims (see photo above) was the perfect attention-getter.
Leaders of the UK's Muslim community have held talks with Home Secretary Jack Straw in the wake of allegations of attacks by vandals on mosques.
The group met Sports Minister Hugh Robertson on Wednesday along with local MPs Jack Straw, Jake Berry and Graham Jones to discuss their concerns.
Last fall, Mr. Baldeo was criminally charged with engaging in a straw-donor scheme in which contributors are reimbursed illegally for their donations, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
Then we were off, you in that swooping straw hat with its touch of forties glamour, I in that floppy thing that makes me look like a demented explorer.
Among its suggestions is likely to be the creation of a national college and Mr Balls said he had already held talks with Justice Secretary Jack Straw about upgrading its status further.
Asked whether the United States and Britain are losing patience with the Iraqis, Straw cited the huge financial investment and loss of lives by both countries in trying trying to mold a democratic Iraq.
At the same time Gore drones on and on with character assassinations, straw man arguments and out-of-context weather anecdotes, more than two dozen global warming experts will join Watts discussing the science Al Gore hopes we will overlook.
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Dr Meldrum was one of eight signatories to a letter sent to Justice Secretary Jack Straw along with the heads of the Royal College of Surgeons, Royal College of Nursing, Medical Defence Union, Medical Protection Society, Royal College of GPs, Faculty of Public Health and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
But with less than two months until the Ames, Iowa Straw Poll, I wait with baited breath.
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She presented him with a mate gourd and straw for drinking traditional Argentine tea.
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Traveling with British foreign secretary Jack Straw, Rice arrived in the middle of an overnight thunderstorm.
Festival highlights include the Tai Hang dragon parade (18 to 20 September), featuring a 67m-long straw dragon lit with tens of thousands of incense sticks.
But now the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, agrees with EU ministers that law agencies must have access to encryption keys that are used to scramble information.
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