eggplant

They have putrid California grapes for eyes, puffed-out cheeks of spoiled plums, sweltered eggplant lips.

Tomatoes are nightshades, a plant family whose other members include tobacco, potatoes, pimentos, peppers, eggplant and paprika.

Remember those quaint ethnic communities, once teeming with stickball games and eggplant-shaped old women wielding rolling pins?

That all changes when Ellen, via earpiece, has her shout, “I smell eggplant!”

On Thursday he took his final send-off in a patterned eggplant silk ensemble.

The waxen gentleman looked a trifle more intelligent than an eggplant.

Corn for soup, and tomatoes, eggplant and peaches all in one good dinner, and yet all cheap.

Lettuce was almost ready; peas and corn progressing nicely, and later on there would be cucumbers and tomatoes and eggplant.

When the whole is thoroughly blended, pack it into the shell of the eggplant and place in the oven.

Add another 1/4 cupful of crumbs and the remaining eggplant, dot again with butter, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.