He thickens his lobster soup with roasted chestnuts, giving it a sweet richness.

The mellowness made me think of mussels, and the sweet richness of their broth.

Totzin wiped the blade of his obsidian dagger across his tongue, tasting the sweet salty richness of her blood.

And a special of pan-roasted wild striped bass hinted of spring, with blood oranges bringing out the sweet richness of the butter sauce.

Mint jelly countered the sweet richness of grilled double lamb chops that could have been better trimmed.

The wine's astringency perfectly offsets the sweet richness of butter and meat.

The room smelled of the rot of death, that sickly sweet richness of fatty nodes decomposing and bacteria-heavy intestines dissolving themselves.

Serve piping hot with a crisp, bitter salad to balance the gratin's sweet richness.

"Habibi" gives a reader all the sweet richness of a Mediterranean dessert, while leaving some of the historic complexities open to interpretation.