What is "podrida"

Usage examples of "podrida".

On gala days he would have us in to dine with him, when he would regale us with lobscouse and salmagundi, or perhaps with an outland dish, a pillaw or olla podrida, or fish broiled after the fashion of the Azores, for he had a famous trick of cooking, and could produce the delicacies of all nations.

The olla podrida, and its constant attendant, the tomato sauce, were intolerable, but the wine was very well for a midshipman.

Madame Psychosis had determined from the filming itself was little more than an olla podrida of depressive conceits strung together with flashy lensmanship and perspectival novelty.

The ethnic olla podrida which swarmed through the streets, however, did impress them, since their ancestors had known only themselves and the viracochas.

There is nothing in the world less nourishing than an olla podrida.

I smelt the homely scent of an olla podrida as I came up the stairs.

What you would call a pot-au-feu, Maurice, or you, Maggie, an olla podrida.

The aroma of food, an olla podrida that had been cooking all day, drew him on, but at the same time he wished to savor and even touch items of his collection.

After a short rest and resupplyihg, Ilitu wants to investigate the Great Scarp and the Olla Podrida.

What the head-carver had best do is to serve me with what they call ollas podridas (and the rottener they are the better they smell).