Toast
Toast is bread that has been browned by exposure to radiant heat. This browning is the result of a Maillard reaction. Toasting warms the bread and makes it firmer, so it holds toppings more securely. Toasting is a common method of making stale bread more palatable.
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Famous quotes containing the word toast:
“For let em be clumsy, or let em be slim,
Young or ancient, I care not a feather;
So fill a pint bumper quite up to the brim,
And let us een toast them together.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (17511816)
“You make a toast for tomorrow
and smash the cup,
letting your false women lap the dish I had to fatten up.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.”
—Dorothy Parker (18931967)
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