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Sesame grisini was served on the side mine turned out VERY crunchy, but tasted good.
Archive 2008-09-01 librariane 2008
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Sesame grisini was served on the side mine turned out VERY crunchy, but tasted good.
convivial librariane 2008
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-- The _grisini_ are bread idealized, bread under the form of walking-sticks a third of a little finger in diameter, and from which every the least particle of crumb has been carefully eliminated.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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They possess nothing of the _grisini_ but the name.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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"Hence it is," concludes my friend, "that the comparatively easy Apennines have proved to this day an impassable barrier to the buttered toast on one side, and to the _grisini_ on the other."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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It is not from lack of proper materials, -- for heaps of butter and mountains of rolls are to be seen on every side; it is not from lack of taste, -- for the people which has invented the _grisini_, and delights in the white truffle, shows too keen a sense of what is dainty not to exclude the charge of want of taste.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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Don't you see that it is replaced by the _grisini? _ "
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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"The passion for the _grisini_ accounts most naturally for the want of buttered toast in Turin.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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