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...farmer and the cowman are dancing together again in a Broadway revival of Oklahoma! The King and I and Carousel have each got a fresh coat of paint in recent years. Even that postwar war-horse South Pacific is on a national tour and was revived a short time ago in London. But Flower Drum Song has long been the one Rodgers and Hammerstein hit that no one wants to revive, tucked away in the drawer where dated ethnic stereotypes are sent...
Would you like worms with that grasshopper? A former Thai disc jockey and her ex-shrimp-farmer boyfriend have launched Insects Inter, Thailand's first fast-food chain specializing in cooked bugs. Water beetles and scorpions have long been popular foods in the country's impoverished northern provinces, but Pailin Thanomkait, 32, and Satapol Polprapas, 29, are betting that middle-income urbanites and adventurous Western visitors will pay 70¢ for a box of crispy fried crickets with chili sauce. The company's network of kiosks has doubled to 60 in the past four months, and Insects Inter aims to have...
...addition to providing friends with herbal remedies for a cold or the minty part of a mint julep, is to make batch after batch of incredible edible salsa by Super Bowl time. And in order to craft a salsa good enough to go along with the Super Bowl, Master Farmer Whitchurch is also growing the one make-or-break ingredient key to any self-respecting melange of spicy veggies: cilantro...
...time and money could be devoted to raising interesting fruit," says Emma-Jane Lamont, curator of Britain's National Fruit Collections. A supermarket-friendly variety "must come into bearing early and provide regular heavy crops" of fruit that doesn't bruise easily and stores well. Some specialty grocers or farmer's markets do offer heirloom fruit varieties, and if you're lucky enough to find some, you can try the 19th-century recipes added to this edition of Pomona Britannica. These recipes give a sense of what was done with fruit back in the day when a "generous amount...
...rifle. Then Hur asked why blood around the wound on the right side of his son's chest was black and coagulated, while blood around the other two bullet holes was still red, as if the wounds were fresher. Two different blood types, the forensic expert told the rural farmer in a dismissive tone. "Do you take me for a fool?" Hur exploded...