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  • Some people celebrate by making a dish with sweet fava beans they call ossi dei morti, “the bones of the dead.”

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • Some people celebrate by making a dish with sweet fava beans they call ossi dei morti, “the bones of the dead.”

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • So at the end of last year, I was delighted to discover a small storefront selling all the familiar Sullivan St breads and two cookies that, like everything Sullivan St makes, are exemplary: biscotti pratesi (almost as good as mine) and ossi di morti, shatter-light meringues with almonds.

    Half a Loaf 2008

  • Italians eat sweets created of egg white, chopped almonds and sugar shaped like tibia and skeletons, ossi da morto, "bones of the dead."

    Donna Henes: Death Feeds Life Feeds Death Donna Henes 2010

  • So at the end of last year, I was delighted to discover a small storefront selling all the familiar Sullivan St breads and two cookies that, like everything Sullivan St makes, are exemplary: biscotti pratesi (almost as good as mine) and ossi di morti, shatter-light meringues with almonds.

    Half a Loaf 2008

  • So at the end of last year, I was delighted to discover a small storefront selling all the familiar Sullivan St breads and two cookies that, like everything Sullivan St makes, are exemplary: biscotti pratesi (almost as good as mine) and ossi di morti, shatter-light meringues with almonds.

    Half a Loaf 2008

  • [435] "Et si y avoit pluiseurs des seigneurs et des riches hommes qui avoient leurs chiens et leurs oizins ossi bien comme li rois leurs sirs."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • I told him I would be tender of his feelings — ossi tender que Zaire.

    Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840

  • I told him I would be tender of his feelings -- ossi tender que beefsteak.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

  • Alala, comme c’est beau le coton surtout quand on le voit sur une ossi belle photo !

    foodbeam » Inspire me 2007

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