Olan

Olan is generally served with rice but I think it can be eaten with all types of dosas and appams like I did yesterday.

Archive 2008-10-01 Anjali 2008

Olan is generally served with rice but I think it can be eaten with all types of dosas and appams like I did yesterday.

Is This Still Olan? Anjali 2008

Sigma of Live to Eat explains that Olan is an integral part of the "sadya" or festive meal, and makes her version with ash gourd and black-eyes peas, with a flavorful tempering of mustard seeds and fiery red chillies.

Archive 2007-05-01 Nupur 2007

NAZENIN ANSARI, DIPLOMATIC EDITOR, KAYHARI, LONDON: Well, to begin with, the sailors, when they were paraded on TV, it was the al Olan, which is Arabic channel of Iranian television.

CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2007 2007

"Olan," said Oy, and the finality in his strange little voice rolled a stone against her heart.

The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

Sold into slavery by her parents as a child of three or four years old, too young for her mother even to have begun binding her feet, Olan had grown up as a kitchen drudge, mute, coarse-featured, big-footed, beaten daily with a leather strap, bullied by the women and ignored by the men of the household as too plain to be worth raping.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Olan, the mother who could strangle one girl child at birth and offer to sell another into slavery, became for American readers the moral center of the book and the prime source of its emotional warmth.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Olan was the first Chinese woman to be portrayed in fiction as she actually was rather than with the moth eyebrows, porcelain skin, and tiny flowerlike feet of the traditional heroine.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

You'd get all dressed up, comb your hair, wait in line, and then hold your rehearsed smile for 3 seconds while an Olan Mills representative snapped your photo -- and you only got one shot!

Bad Yearbook Photos Collects The WORST School Pictures 2010

Olan was the first Chinese woman to be portrayed in fiction as she actually was rather than with the moth eyebrows, porcelain skin, and tiny flowerlike feet of the traditional heroine.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010