Word: camelizing
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...allow one extravagance: a tiny pair of camel-colored Italian suede shoes that I discovered at a Daffy's downtown. Reduced from $80 to $32, they seemed like a steal, and on the big day, they looked great with Conor's khakis and borrowed...
...finally sheesha-smoking the night away has not been realized. Instead, I unglamorously touched down in an airplane, took a cab to my bare hostel room and have spent most nights studying Arabic. I have not been on a horse, but have been on a stationary, probably sedated camel, with camera in hand. I have not raised any trouble, or burned any flags, but I did witness a demonstration where one guy was really angry and was saying “Israel” and “America?...
...that is show business, so maybe I can understand the belly dancers selling out. What really hurt me was seeing some Bedouin Arabs, noble inhabitants of the desert, pushing souvenirs, camel rides and water bottles at the many tourist sites around Cairo. Reading about Bedouins, dreaming about Bedouins, never did I imagine a Bedouin ensnaring me in a camel riding scam. But then there I was, at the Giza pyramids, atop a camel, begging its owner to let me down. The Bedouin who got me up there was telling me that he would only let me down...
...market started in 1979, it has maintained a rather idealistic, handmade ethos?make it, bake it, grow it, design it?enshrining one-off originality in everything on offer. That goes for entertainment, too: there are Australian bush poetry recitals, didgeridoo players, jazz and folk bands, street theater and even camel rides. The Noosa Heads hinterland is a popular area with those seeking an alternative lifestyle, and the market?which is patronized by up to 10,000 bargain hunters each Saturday?tilts happily away from the mainstream, fusing contemporary culture with traditional rural life in a charming hybrid...
...turns out that few people actually enjoy the taste of pangolin?a scaly anteater whose flesh is a blend of gristle and rubber. The same goes for the nocturnal civet, which has a gamy aftertaste that even the thickest brown sauce can't mask. And who really enjoys camel hump, which tastes just as you'd expect a blubbery lump to taste? But flavor isn't what really matters to many of the diners tucking into China's wildlife menagerie. "Businessmen come here to prove their wealth," says George Ng, a Shanghai-based restaurateur who specialized in cobra and other...