Word: citrus
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...opened up a store selling oranges and other citrus fruit. Legend has it that she needed a dress with a colorful pattern that would obscure the juice that got on her clothing (an occupational hazard if I’ve ever heard of one). Rising to the challenge, Pulitzer sewed herself a handful of dresses in bright colors that were new, cute and popular, and requests for them quickly began pouring in from all over Palm Beach. Once Jackie Kennedy, a friend and classmate of Lilly’s at Chapin girls’ school in New York, wore...
...cocoa bean was grown as well as the percentage of cocoa in each mouthwatering morsel. The latest varieties have that distinct Japanese twist: fillings range from the requisite green tea to more quirky innovations such as sansho (a combination of spices usually reserved for broiled eel) and yuzu (a citrus often used in soups and bathwater...
There's a sameness to the drinks, in both their sweet taste and their ingredients (caffeine, fructose and taurine, a nonessential amino acid, are among the most common). They also share a penchant for aggressive, alpha-male names like Rockstar (which tastes like fizzy bubble gum), Venom (with a citrus bite), Blue Ox, Monster, Hype, "bone-crushing citrus" Piranha, Stinger and Whoop...
Celebrated in mythology, literature and art, the pomegranate has a noble history. Along with the citrus and the peach, it's one of the three blessed fruits in Buddhism. Some have suggested that it was a pomegranate, not an apple, that led to the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. And in Greek mythology, Persephone was sentenced to six months a year in the underworld for eating just six pomegranate seeds...
...pent-up frustration with hefty U.S. tariffs. For example, Brazil and the U.S. together produce 90% of the world's orange juice. Brazil exports all but 1% of its juice, while Americans guzzle 68 million glasses a day - a more than $3 billion market. But to protect U.S. citrus growers, Washington slaps a whopping 52% tariff on Brazilian o.j. In the past 15 years, that has cut Brazil's share of the U.S. frozen concentrated orange-juice market from 45% to less than 15%. The U.S. claims it can't negotiate those duties in the ftaa. The reason: Brazil...