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roasting

roh sting

  • n  cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)
    the slow roasting took several hours
  • v  cook with dry heat, usually in an oven
  • v  subject to laughter or ridicule

  • On the other, boasting and roasting are also part of the tradition.
  • Fairy tales and legends give children important exposure to their darker anxieties: people roasting in the oven in Hansel and Gretel or being eaten by a giant in Jack and the .
  • For a truly fresh brew, some folks are roasting their own.
News & Articles

  • Long Beach wholesale business brewing up success for Coast Roast coffee
    LONG BEACH -- After nearly a decade of serving coffee and four years of roasting his own beans in a converted bank building in downtown Long Beach, Shawn Montella has become an "overnight success" in the wholesale coffee bean business with his Coast Roast brand.
    June 9, 2013 - The Biloxi Sun Herald
  • YMCA counselors learn to be happy campers
    Sarah Porzel’s first time at an overnight resident camp had many of the elements that kids enjoy: playing circle games, singing silly songs, hiking, exploring caves, building fires and then roasting marshmallows over those fires. The difference was that Porzel is not a child. She’s the youth and family coordinator at the C.W. Avery Family YMCA in Plainfield. Porzel, along with 40 of the Greater ...
    June 7, 2013 - The Herald News
Quotes

  • Kathy Griffin in Reuters
    Let's just say it will be an evening of highs and lows,Griffin said. "I will be roasting Joan with more gentleness and tenderness than her latest chemical peel and, on the other hand, I will give her a verbal Pap smear, and God only knows...
  • Howard Schultz in WELT ONLINE
    Pike Place Roast(TM) is our way of saying 'thank you,'Schultz said. "We've come a long way since 1971. It's because people have always believed in this simple concept we've been working to perfect over the years: roasting and brewing the...
  • Mark Richt in Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
    Somebody had to stand up in front of the team and sing at least a verse or two of a song,Richt said. "It was Chester Adams for years. He would sing 'Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire,' and he'd do a great job of that."

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