hearty food

Give me ekker, said Beatrice contemptuously. There's no ekker in biking that I can see.

...while the bed of the rich crimson clove pink was like one of the spice islands, the very Manilla of the garden.

Carver's work, considered as a totality, constitutes what Bakhtin calls a chronotope, “a formally constitutive category of literature...[within which] spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought—out, concrete whole.