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Dessert consists of either lychees or exotic-flavored icecreams. To clear your sinuses, get a scoop of ginger. For that authentic tropical experience, get the coconut. For some actually sinful desserts, go elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rice, Rice, Maybe | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...Coco Cay's white sand beach. "Bring me another Bahama Mama," yells Danny Rivero, 23, from amid 102 degrees hot-tub bubbles high up on the ship's sun deck. Fellow passenger Renato Deoliveira, 19, obediently passes along a lethal concoction of 151-proof Myers's rum, apricot brandy, coconut rum and fruit punch, while Ted and Kay LaTour, a Milwaukee couple in their 60s, laugh indulgently and sink lower in the froth. "Supposedly we're in a recession," says Ted. "But you look around this cruise and wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Against the Tide | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...First opened in 1912, the cafeterias served 400,000 customers a day at their peak in the early 1950s. Famous actresses, well-heeled businessmen and just plain folks plunked their coins into glass-and-chrome dispensers to feast on such fare as Boston baked beans, macaroni and cheese and coconut-custard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: Requiem for Horn & Hardart | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...next month, he mailed 11,000 letters to food-industry officials. The first sentence was bound to catch their attention: "Is your company an accessory in the deaths of untold numbers of heart attack victims?" The letter went on to urge the food companies to remove coconut and palm oil from their products, as well as lard and beef tallow, all of which contain high levels of saturated fat. NHSA, the letter warned, planned soon to alert the public about "the dangers of highly saturated oil products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crusader From the Heartland: PHILIP SOKOLOF | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...ignored. In October 1988, they were confronted by full-page newspaper ads written and designed by Sokolof and headlined THE POISONING OF AMERICA! The text identified the poisoners: food processors who used tropical oils high in saturated fats. "We implore you. Do not buy products containing palm oil or coconut oil," the ads warned. "Your life may be at stake." Pictured below, to the horror of several major companies, was an assortment of some of + America's favorite brand-name foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crusader From the Heartland: PHILIP SOKOLOF | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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