Word: charcoaling
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...over the country have flocked to California-only to discover that its sunshine is as phony as the cowboys and sophisticates one sees at the corner of Hollywood and Vine. When not obscured by total smog, the sun shines through a haze similar to the one produced by burning charcoal. Its effect on animal and plant life is also well nigh the same...
...Cleveland. Resourceful Tycoon Joyce bought the Glidden Varnish Co. in 1917, turned waste materials into byproducts and byproducts into big business; in 37 years he built Glidden from a $2,500,000-a-year company to one nearly 100 times that size, ranging the market from powdered copper to charcoal, from soybeans to sandwich spreads...
...Japanese delicacy favored by Sam Welles is toasted octopus cooked in oil over a charcoal brazier. John Dowling lists a dish he was served in Pnompenh, Cambodia: monkey soup and noodles. One day in 1944, far from his usual Georgia cooking, Correspondent Bill Howland arrived cold and hungry at an Alaskan trading post that boasted a cook who was half-Eskimo, half-Russian. Howland was invited to have dinner. Says he: "It was roasted young bear, garnished with potatoes and gravy, as savory as any dish turned out by Escoffier." On one of his northern trips, Bob Schulman discovered...
...smallest obtainable. For really fine work he uses one lateral spine of one chicken feather, tied to a handle for him by a man who specializes in tying fishermen's flies. His first step, which may take years is to cover the canvas with a very detailed charcoal drawing. After fixing the charcoal with a spray, he begins applying thin glazes of oil color, sometimes spending weeks on a square inch. When I get sick to death of painting glass " he says "I paint wood for a while. Then when I get fed up with that...
...sticks, some exquisitely decorated with fern fronds, mosses and berries; the bower's sole purpose is for recreation and the entertainment of friends. The satin bower bird even paves his forecourt with shining bits of mica. But his crowning achievement is painting murals in the bower: "He collects charcoal from native hearths and, holding a strip of frayed bark in his beak for a brush, mixes the charcoal with saliva, which is forced through the sides of his bill to be spread with the piece of bark. He thus applies gesso or paint to the side walls...