A Kindle has a beautifully crisp display, has no glare, and is light in the hand.

The result is processed to achieve a beautifully crisp color print of a place that looks hermetically sealed.

Wood-roasted chicken pot pie was also special, chunks of chicken with peas, asparagus, corn, carrots and pearl onions under a duvet of beautifully crisp and flaky crust.

The pastas were not wildly successful, but grilled Arctic char was a generous piece of fish with a beautifully crisp skin on a sort of "risotto" of radicchio and wild mushrooms.

Michael Roemer, who directed this beautifully crisp black-and-white film in 1969 (with Robert Young as cinematographer), only recently found the wherewithal to assemble it into a finished version.

The following year Ken Wharton's Wharton Special "beautifully crisp and fearlessly handled, made f.t.d. in 23.34 sec., beating Stirling Moss (23.46 sec.)

Among them are an elegantly smooth terrine of chicken liver pate; old-fashioned beef with good meaty flavor, and duck with beautifully crisp skin and luscious pink meat.

When confit is reheated, as it usually is, the meat becomes beautifully crisp in a short time.

In an interview in 2001 he named Graham Greene as one of the writers who inspire him, describing Greene as "a master of beautifully crisp, clean and spare prose".

But the beautifully crisp fries, thin and salty, and the elegant slices of sour pickle make that a flaw I will gladly overlook.