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...that's the only Westernized touch at Hotel de Pilawoos?the food, happily, makes no such concessions. The house specialty is that sublime Sri Lankan staple, the hopper?a wafer-thin, bowl-shaped pancake with a crisp surround and soft spongy center. Made out of rice flour, yeast and coconut milk, hoppers are usually eaten with spicy sambol sauces or just a fried egg plopped in the center. They're quite light, so you'll want to order at least four per adult. I like them best with a blistering curry, and my personal favorite is another Pilawoos delicacy, fish...
...with AK-47s guard against pirates who prowl the river in motorboats. As in the American frontier a century ago, fortunes are being made almost overnight in Iraq, and with the same lack of control. As Saghair hoists a load of fruit from the bottom of the hold, a coconut falls out of the lifting net, narrowly missing a docker's head. What safety procedures are in place at the port? he is asked. He smiles again: "There is no law here...
...your gong on!” Thebaud said, referring to the large gong that hangs near the entrance and rings throughout the day and night when drunken patrons muster the courage to ring it. As we soaked up the ambiance, we overheard a fellow patron praise the coconut martini profusely. “This is an orgasm in a glass!” he said. We took his word...
John Hart Ely, an innovative legal theorist and former Harvard professor whose ideas about constitutional interpretation widely influenced the discourse on democracy and the law over the past quarter century, died of cancer on Oct. 25 at his home in Coconut Grove...
...usually know when we eat animal or butterfat. But we often don't when we consume palm and coconut oils, used to fry chips and often found in margarine, chocolates, whipped cream and toppings, even nondairy creamers...