Crossword clues for breadstick
Wiktionary
n. A long, very slender loaf of crisp bread smaller than a baguette, for example, grissini from Italy and rosquilletas from Spain.
WordNet
n. a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup [syn: bread-stick]
Wikipedia
Breadsticks (grissini, dipping sticks) are generally pencil-sized sticks of crisp, dry bread originating in Turin and the surrounding area in Italy. They are originally thought to have been created in the 14th century; although according to a local tradition, they were invented by a baker in Lanzo Torinese (northern Italy) in 1679.
Breadsticks may be offered at the table in restaurants as an appetizer. In some instances or regions they may be a type that is larger than pencil-sized. They may also be combined with ingredients such as prosciutto as an hors d'œuvre. In many restaurants breadsticks are frequently topped with garlic sauces and parmesan cheese when served as appetizers; as a dessert item, they are often topped with cinnamon sugar and icing.
Regions that consume breadsticks include the Americas, Europe (mainly Spain, Italy and Greece), and parts of Asia.
Pre-made, dried breadsticks may sometimes be sold in markets as a kind of snack or a pre-meal appetizer for home use, somewhat similar to a cracker.
Another recipe for breadsticks, called rosquilletas, exists in Comunitat Valenciana (Spain).
Image:Grissini.jpg|Unbaked grissini on a baking tray, seasoned with herbs Image:Bread Sticks.jpg|Wide grissini in a basket
Usage examples of "breadstick".
She did, after all, conquer that primitive breadstick with superior discipline.
It can snap your shoulder in half like a breadstick, my boy -- like a breadstick!
There was no food yet, but only a basket of breadsticks between the candles.
She sat cross-legged at the table as Jared placed salad, breadsticks, and a steaming bowl of spaghetti in front of her.
It proceeded to chew its way up the wood as if the oars were breadsticks, and was well on its way to having Jimmy and Danny Shaftoe for lunch, and Jack for dessert, when the Nayars up on the boat opened fire with their blunderbusses.
Once seated, we all ordered the fettuccini, and over the breadsticks and salad, Rick kept the conversation going at a steady pace.
GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Saginaw, where a Republican dressed as Uncle Sam will show up on 8Zfoot stilts and totter around the dim banquet hall through the whole thing and nearly crash into the network crews' riser several times and bug the hell out of everyone, and where the Twelve Monkeys will bribe or bullshit the headwaiter into seating them at a no-show table and feeding them supper while all the rest of the press corps has to stand in the back of the hall and try to help the slightly mad Economist guy cabbage breadsticks when nobody's looking.
The waitress pouts her lips at me when I reach for another breadstick and I lift my head toward her and pout mine back, then press my head again into the palms of my hands, and this happens again when she brings our appetizers.
It does burgers and ribs too, and deep-fried whitebait, and has red-check tablecloths, and candles in wine bottles under great red vesuviuses of congealed wax, and complimentary breadsticks and gigantic pepper mills on every table, so I book the table for two, eight-thirty, name of Jackson, from a red-faced man with dirty fingernails who may or may not be the eponymous Luigi, then head back to my digs.