What is "eggplant"

Usage examples of "eggplant".

In the produce section, three Athabascan woodsmen looked over the apples while an old Chinese woman muttered to a bin of withered eggplants.

With his chopsticks, Shichisaburo picked up a gray, slimy lump of pickled eggplant and held it out for Cat.

Little Italy and ate veal piccata and eggplant parmigiana, followed by a cannoli they shared.

One lousy beer and six or seven platesful of the caramelized eggplant dumplings.

In her purple chenille bathrobe and green hair curlers, she reminded Emily of some weird eggplant experiment gone awry.

Instead he looked to our own Greek diet—our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads, ourpilafi , raisins, and figs—as potential curatives, as life-giving, artery-cleansing, skin-smoothing wonder drugs.

You can spice up any version of the basic pasta sauce with fiery pepper, lace it with an abundance of mushrooms, add diced eggplant, clams, or even certain hams.

Baked sweet potatoes, fried eggplant, coconut milk, thick slices of roasted pork, heavy with oil.

Sullen-looking yams were backed by a line of huge eggplants, scowling purple things as terrifying as wild elephants.

The defenders at first fought a slow retreat to the very base of the Ice Box, where vegetable pulp spattered the white enamel as the last of the fighting eggplants laid down its life, then the tide turned and the defenders pushed the buccaneers back down the beach until the besiegers were knee-deep in the river, fighting for their lives.

Slaves cleared the table and brought in a platter of fattened partridges, stuffed with lemons and eggplants, on a bed of mint and lettuce.

Cities sprawled, surrounded by suburbs, their thick ranks of homes a random mix of traditional wood and stone and brick and modern bioforms, pumpkins and eggplants and squash and bean plants and even plants in the guise of massive human heads, squatting on the landscape like the leavings of some mad executioner.

We recognize that there are large numbers of eggplants in the world and that, given enough of them, sooner or later we'll come upon one that looks like a human face, even a very particular human face.

She and Esau grew four types of tomatoes, butter beans, string beans, black-eyed peas, crowder peas, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, collards, mustard greens, turnips, vidalia onions, yellow onions, green onions, cabbage, okra, new red potatoes, russet potatoes, carrots, beets, corn, green peppers, cantaloupes, two varieties of watermelon, and a few other things she couldn't recall at the moment.

And stuffed eggplant poriyal and coconut yam kootu and rice idli and curd vadai and vegetable bajji and—"