Word: conch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the eclectic, subtle cuisine at Claire, most restaurants have menus that stick close to or are adapted from native specialties. Coconut-covered shrimp, plantains, codfish and conch in various guises, and the marinated, then grilled jerk chicken and pork are among coast-to-coast favorites. Along with callaloo (a soup of crab meat, kale and pork) and Jamaican meat patties, the chef at Manhattan's Sugar Reef also dishes up the aptly named but pallid "trendy wrapped fish" (perch cooked in banana leaves). At the Sugar Shack in Los Angeles, Cuban Moors and Christians (black beans and white rice...
Gradually, he says, "I came to realize that the key is not to do anything radical but to modify." Today he eats lots of chicken, lobster and conch, usually simply prepared but sometimes fried. Also fruits and salads. He sips watered-down Crystal Light, but has an occasional glass of white wine. He runs briefly or bikes in the morning, takes a nap after lunch, goes to the body- building gym for an hour and a half in the afternoon. He swims and scuba dives -- strictly for pleasure. "It's not worth being healthy if you're going...
...toms and conch shells welcome a missionary...
...later, John Paul was welcomed to the steamy heat of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands with a fanfare played on conch shells and by an honor guard of spear-carrying tribes men. About one-sixth of the archipelago's scattered population of 300,000 is Catholic. Gathered before a plain wooden altar, the Solomon Islanders gave no thunderous cheers but greeted John Paul by falling silent, a traditional sign of respect...
Kentucky will meet the winner of the Alabama-Birmingham-Brigham Young game in the Mideast, and DePaul, hoping to give retiring Conch Ray Meyer his first nation championship, will go against the winner of Alabama and Illinois State in the Midwest...