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...house specialty is vermicelli—thin rice noodles in a fish sauce mixed with your choice of beef, pork, or chicken and mint, bean sprouts, and peanuts ($6.95). It is a lovely light dish, and certain versions feature a crispy spring role accompanied by the wonderfully tangy nuoc cham sauce on the side. You can customize it to your liking (I choose to skip the mint), making vermicelli a good choice for your first Vietnamese culinary experience...
...Daily Dish...
...apple a day keeps the doctor away, but a Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study released yesterday says a dish of fish also performs swimmingly. Lead author Dariush Mozaffarian and his colleague, Eric B. Rimm, have concluded that the nutritional benefits of fish far outweigh qualms over the chemicals they may contain. Over the past year, Mozaffarian, an HSPH instructor in epidemiology, and Rimm, a HSPH associate professor, waded through research on the nutritive effects of fish. “There had been a lot of media attention...over the potential risks associated with contaminants that are found...
...penny, other than one’s thoughts. Even most vending machines and other mechanisms reject this obsolete orange orb. I admit that people do sometimes use pennies. They throw them into fountains; they put them in the “take a penny, leave a penny” dish. But we don’t take the penny seriously as a unit of currency; when someone finds one on the ground, his or her first thought is, “Wow, good luck,” not, “Wow, I just made a profit...
...these occasions, there was basically no fun permitted in public. In school, your teacher taught you to pray, you were forced to fast, and as the years passed, veiled women became the only reality you had ever known. At the same time, however, your family had a satellite TV dish, and you watched music videos and films from the West. You followed trends and learned that around the world modern young people date, play in bands, cruise cars and flirt - so, you and your friends made sure you also partook in some or all of these pleasures...