When it first appeared, in 1984, television was barren of its traditional staple: great situation comedy.

Working mothers ignore more traditional staples to buy the newly-arrived white sliced bread.

The three traditional staples of Peruvian cuisine are corn, potatoes and beans.

For example, the price of bread, a traditional staple of the Russian diet, was below the cost of the wheat used to produce it.

A traditional staple of Asian cuisine, it is a stable emulsion of oil, water, and protein.

Diversifying from the monoculture of traditional staples can have important nutritional benefits for farmers in developing countries.

A month earlier the town would have been ringed with meadows of blue camas flowers, whose roots were a traditional Indian staple.

Drug companies can also usher in more innovations with life style drugs than with their traditional disease-fighting staples.

Crystal Mass marked a departure for the group, with more focus seemingly directed toward sound and production than the traditional staple, the lyrics.

The traditional staples of beef, milk and animal blood have given way to a modern diet.