meatless day

I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned.

He said that sometimes the supper was small because it was a meatless day.

There were parents and school principals who heartily embraced the meatless day, but even some of them found it confusing.

'You see, it is rather bad luck for you that you happened to come here on one of our meatless days.'

Sara Suleri published her literary memoir, Meatless Days (1989).

All this means, of course, that Meatless Days is much harder to read than The Knox Brothers.

The drought led to rationing, and what with the proliferation of meatless days and riceless days it was hard to feed an extra, hidden mouth.

There was rationing now-sugar, according to complaints Eleanor overheard or saw in the newspaper, was impossible to get, and the authorities were urging meatless days.

Sara Suleri also both celebrates, and yet protects and hides, her much-loved family in Meatless Days.

The fishing in the rain played in earlier centuries when the great needs of the nearby monasteries and the many meatless days, a far greater role than today.

As in post-Pearl Harbour U.S.A., a meatless day each week was decreed, but little effort made to enforce it.

Her memoir, Meatless Days, is an exploration of the complex interweaving of national history and personal biography which was widely and respectfully reviewed .

Meatless Monday is based in the United States, but meatless days (Monday in particular) are gaining popularity worldwide.

Mrs Garfitt, fat, voluble and slovenly, paused for breath and gave a perfunctory stir to something that looked like workhouse broth on one of the meatless days.

In the title story Sara Suleri suggests that, as on legally meatless days people thought constantly of meat, so deprived of her dead, she thinks constantly of them.

She clearly traces the fateful journey of caviar from being the food of Russian peasants whose religious calendar had some 200 meatless days to becoming the delicacy of the ultrarich.

To stay here, whatsitsname, free as a bird, food and shelter for three years, what did you care about meatless days, whatsitsname, what did you know about the cost of rice?

Voluntary food rationing in World War I, with "wheatless days" and "meatless days," evolved into the mandatory rationing of food and shoes during World War II.

Besides reducing the saturated fat content of your diet, a meatless day or two each week, has other benefits, says Julie Upton, MS, RD, with the Environmental Nutrition Newsletter.

As a result, food was short in every country; even the United States had meatless days, and widespread famine was predicted within fifteen years, despite heroic efforts to farm the sea and to develop synthetic foods.

Although the Archdiocese of Detroit can find nothing in its archives, generations of residents in the Downriver section of Michigan believed they had a dispensation from the church to eat muskrats on meatless days.

In May 2009, Ghent, Belgium, was reported to be "the first [city] in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week" for environmental reasons, when local authorities decided to implement a "weekly meatless day".

This last generalization may be based on the fact that Friday - traditionally a meatless day for Catholics - was also the day on which many ovens were fired up, so a rich tarte flambee might have been the day's main meal.

Yet, because the country is made up mostly of Christians and Muslims who observe many meatless days, it also has a wonderful and extensive vegetarian selection, centered on lentils, split peas, cabbage, beans and greens like collards and kale.

Last year, Mrs. Farinelli decreed a meatless day in honor of Linda McCartney, the wife of the former Beatle Paul McCartney; she was a vegetarian and animal rights activist who had just died of cancer.