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...charter, and perhaps last, standing member of the Lower Montgomery Street Olive or Onion Society, established in 1956 in search of the perfect civilized martini, I cannot believe San Franciscans have come to embrace a cactus distillate requiring several buffering additives to become palatable. Herb would never have allowed it. BRUCE A. STEELE, Scottsdale, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: May 20, 2002 | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...Roger Meyer, owner of San Diego's Valley Vista Kiwi Farm. Coming soon: Cuba's mamey sapote (which tastes like a cooked sweet potato), the yellow kiwi (smoother, less tart than the green type), and the jackfruit (fibrous, fleshy, richly flavored). Then there's the Vietnamese dragonfruit, a crunchy cactus that one gourmand called a "psychedelic pink-and-lime-green hand grenade." Snapple is using it in a new "smart drink" line called Elements, but the real thing is also "going to be tremendous," says Meyer. Not as promising is the durian of Southeast Asian, which the farmer says "smells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exotic Fruit | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

Gonzales has a 40-acre farm in Durango, but half of it is covered with cactus, and the beans he grows earn him less than $5 a day. "With six children and my wife, it is not enough." He was in debt 50,000 pesos--about $5,000--and could not pay even the interest on his loan. "I was thinking about coming to the U.S. for a while. Finally, I told my wife, and she said, 'If you can do it, get it done.'" His only other choice was to sell part of his land, which would make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: The Coyote's Game | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

Reubens is said to have a house in the Hollywood Hills that makes the cartoony Gary Panter set from Pee-wee's Playhouse look like Martha Stewart's place. It's supposed to be jammed with toys and kitschy knickknacks and surrounded by a cactus garden he planted himself. "It's sad-scary. Even telling you this, you're thinking, 'Funny and colorful.' No. It's scary," he says. He's going to take it apart, get rid of all the junk, de-Pee-wee it, maybe make it a place for an adult. Then again, with all his other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bigger Than Pee-wee | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...past week, the crack of the bat has again been heard in the Cactus and Grapefruit leagues, and spring training, if not spring itself, fills the air. As always, there is the heady talk of the preseason, the look at new signees and new prospects. Look hard this year; you may not see America's pastime for a while. The owners are likely to cause trouble when the bargaining agreement expires at season's end. A long lockout may mean the end of baseball as we know it, while retirement may grab other greats, like my hometown hero, Tony Gwynn...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Columnist Outtakes | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

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