Word: exotica
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...plenty on offer at Eumundi, with around 300 stalls spread under the shade of vast Moreton Bay Fig trees on market days. Friendly stallholders sell local produce (everything from mangoes to organic jams to macadamia-nut coffee) as well as a rich array of local art, handicrafts, New Age exotica and colorful clothing. If you think you might look fetching in hemp, this is the place for you, baby...
Sure, peas and carrots are nutritious and all, but according to cookbook author Jill Gusman, they're merely "land vegetables." In Vegetables from the Sea, she offers recipes for such exotica as kombu, wakame and bullwhip kelp. These veggies, which many people might call, well, seaweed, are a mainstay of Japanese cuisine and packed with minerals and disease-fighting antioxidant vitamins. Dulse, which Gusman uses to make Irish soda muffins, has a deep burgundy hue and a smoky flavor, and hijiki, which she puts on crostini, is jet black and sweet. Home cooks can find edible seaweeds in dehydrated form...
...romance or a sedate getaway, the best choice is probably the Taj Exotica, tel: (91-832) 277 1234. This hotel is charmingly designed in authentic Goan style and efficiently serviced, with the rooms offering plenty of privacy and comfort. It's also perched at the edge of the sea, with a wide range of sports activities, and in ambiance bears more resemblance to a posh country club than a hotel...
Thailand's love of gastronomic exotica extends to the foulest of fauna. Grasshoppers, water bugs and dung beetles are considered fair snacktime fare. Not on the tapas menu, however, are cockroaches. Too vile even for the liberal Thai palette? No, too adorable?for months, one of the trendiest pets to own in Thailand has been the Madagascar Giant Hissing Cockroach, an imported species that can grow to centimeters in length and sells in pet shops for $1.20. "They're clean, they're cute and I love the sound they make," explains a proud local pest owner. Besides hissing, they also...
...director whose earlier films - Felicia's Journey, The Sweet Hereafter and Exotica - dealt with more abstract obsessions, Ararat is both personal and political. It premiered last September in Yerevan, Armenia's capital, and was enthusiastically received. The film has not yet been screened in Turkey. But with its scattered releases across Europe, Ararat is enabling a wider audience to explore a trauma that lives on today...