Word: feastings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muslim feast day of Id al Fitr, marking the end of the monthlong Ramadan fast. As the first light of day fell over West Beirut, families gathered in the city's cemeteries to mourn their dead. Some people quietly prayed and read the Koran beside older graves marked by marble slabs and beribboned arbors. Others wept beside the many fresh mounds of dirt, marked only by cinder blocks. Near by lay picks and shovels left by gravediggers the evening before. As a heavyset middle-aged woman dropped leafy sprigs on three fresh graves, she became hysterical and collapsed into...
...millions of other Americans, for whom the product of the cacao bean is not so much a feast as a fix. Per capita consumption of chocolate in the U.S. last year was 9.1 Ibs.; some $3.4 billion was spent on chocolate products of all kinds. While Americans lag behind Austrians, Belgians, Norwegians, Germans and the league-leading Swiss, U.S. consumption of luxe chocolates (selling for up to $30 per Ib.) is growing steadily. From coast to coast, shamelessly fragrant new boutiques with names like Le Chocolat Elegant, Nutty Chocolatier and La Maison de Bon Bon are blooming...
...remember which I like best." Says George: "We're going to come back for a test later-whoever scores the highest gets the biggest dessert." The Horns will return, though like most patrons, they reserve these caloric excursions for special occasions. Says Judy of tonight's feast: "I can feel my little arteries clogging already...
...later, the adventurers raced the spring thaw to their penultimate destination, the top of the world. Though a hazardous voyage back to Greenwich over quickly melting ice still lies ahead, Fiennes was exuberant. He rammed a slightly frozen Union Jack into the icecap, then scrambled to unpack their celebratory feast: a chocolate Easter egg and a magnum of champagne, which at that latitude was, of course, "nicely chilled...
...salt cookery you should use the freshest foods that can be found. There are four vegetables that make an especially fine feast without salt. These are mushrooms, eggplants, really fresh red ripe tomatoes and good-quality onions, white...