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The schmaltz, also known as chicken fat, is incredibly savory and perfectly accents the potatoes.
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Julia Levy, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2024
Only melodramatic soft rock can fully conjure the necromantic schmaltz of Lisa Frankenstein, a new comedy about a teenager seducing a long-dead corpse.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
Second violinist Bram Goldstein brought old-fashioned schmaltz to his part of the safe, conservative character whose cloying melodies are violently interrupted by harsh dissonances from the other three.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
Extended scenes of Michel working the room and greeting longtime customers go beyond glad-handing schmaltz to substantive discussions of his practices and influences and, above all, to his unfolding, for diners, of the Troisgros family’s multigenerational story.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
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Julia Levy, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2024
Only melodramatic soft rock can fully conjure the necromantic schmaltz of Lisa Frankenstein, a new comedy about a teenager seducing a long-dead corpse.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
Second violinist Bram Goldstein brought old-fashioned schmaltz to his part of the safe, conservative character whose cloying melodies are violently interrupted by harsh dissonances from the other three.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
Extended scenes of Michel working the room and greeting longtime customers go beyond glad-handing schmaltz to substantive discussions of his practices and influences and, above all, to his unfolding, for diners, of the Troisgros family’s multigenerational story.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
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“Schmaltz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schmaltz. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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