Word: coconut
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...better than this!" Buffett yelps as his 13-piece Coral Reefer Band takes the stage in Mardi Gras costumes and towering headdresses. The crowd at the Riverbend amphitheater roars its agreement: 18,500 otherwise respectable people, many in full tropical regalia--foam parrot hats, grass skirts and coconut-shell bras. And that's just the men. (Let's not even discuss the folks dancing naked on their boats in the Ohio River, right behind the stage.) Buffett's fans, the Parrotheads--so named by a friend of Buffett's at a Cincinnati, Ohio, show in 1986--have made tonight...
...Sissano Lagoon, separated from the ocean by a fragile spit of sand where villages once grew, is now a place of the most primitive horrors. Limbs hang from the coconut trees, freshly tamped graves dot the beach, and huge saltwater crocodiles crawl from the red-tinged sea to scavenge on the unburied dead. Bodies swiftly rotted by the tropical heat come apart in emergency workers' hands. And to the surviving villagers, many of them amputees after gangrene invaded their wounds, it is a place to be ever forsaken, a steaming graveyard carved out by elemental demons. New villages, crude...
...their attempt to include everyone in on the fun, the students splashed the dust-like colors all over the clearing, the tables set with Indian foods such as coconut chum chum and pistachio burfee--and the reporter...
...stones in the frozen MIT ground, but the pig tasted delicious nonetheless. Soon after my arrival there was the inevitable rush to the serving table, replete with the typical luau spread: somen salad, lomi lomi salmon, sushi, kalua pig and cabbage, teriyaki beef, chicken long rice, dimsum, rice, haupia, coconut cake, and chi chi dango. Kama'aina (island locals) were disappointed to find that pudding-like poi was not shipped in, but otherwise the food was a success. People not familiar with the delicacies of Hawaii were encouraged to "just try everything." Even the police officers who were hired...
Dinner, yes, dinner: appetizers come in all shapes and sizes, and a good combination would be the Chantal Cheese Bread Pudding with Apples along with the Curried Coconut Shrimp and Black Bean Salsa ($8.95, $6.95). The contrast between an exceptionally soft and sweet dish, and the crispy spicy flavor of the other keeps the palate on edge right up until the main course (which, incidentally, immediately follows the silent removal of empty appetizer dishes). In terms of entrees, Chez Henri's offers a little of everything: from paella to venison to the traditional steak--but each dish is a meal...