Word: cook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harker recalls that one night, half a dozen hungry prisoners angered their guards, including Garwood, by butchering and preparing to cook a cat. They were forced to stand at attention until a prisoner named Russ told the Viet Cong that he had killed the cat. The Vietnamese guards then beat and kicked him. Says Harker: "Bob Garwood came up to us and said we were all going to have to pay for what happened to Russ. Bob blamed us for what had happened. He hit me one time in the ribs, but hurt my feelings more than anything else...
...band finally slips into "Road Runner"; Rotten doesn't remember that one either. With some help from drummer Paul Cook, he latches onto some random lyrics--the Stop and Shop, the modern world, and the refrain about the radio. He closes it off with "Do we know any other fuckin' songs?" ending one of the priceless moments in recording history...
...1950s she was rather like Omai, the noble savage whom Captain Cook brought back from Tahiti to the court of George III. America loved Grandma Moses as the representative of natural virtue-the ambassadress of a past that was al ready being sentimentalized on an industrial scale. Her America of checkered farmhouses, old oaken buckets, barn-raising parties, whirring buggy wheels, and quilting bees was not the America of the Korean War, the TV-quiz scandals, the McCarthy terror and the Detroit assembly lines. But it had been a real place, and Grandma Moses not only knew it well...
...centers is Hana, edging the rain forest on the east coast. It was from Hana's shores in 1778 that King Kamehameha the Great glimpsed the first of the tall ships that were to impose Western so-called civilization on Hawaii; the ship's English captain, James Cook, mapped the island, which he spelled Mowee.* Though Hana can be reached in minutes by air, driving there is half the fun. The shoestring road, with 617 switchback bends and 56 one-way bridges, bumples through a jungle of bamboo, fern, maune loa vines, breadfruit, mango, banyan, banana, kukui...
...snapper), akule (mackerel) and aquaculturally raised catfish, all of which are often served in a papillote of ti leaves; and all the tropical fruits like papaya, persimmon, pineapple, lilikoi (passion fruit), guava and dozens of wild berries. Between meals, there are Dewey Kobayashi's famed Kitch'n Cook'd potato chips, which are unobtainable on the mainland at any price. Whether for malihin is or for themselves, Mauians, like all Hawaiians, dish up gargantuan meals, fit for a 300-lb. Queen Namahana. "Mo is bettah!" they...