Word: fig
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...Step One of Mishra's effort to rehabilitate the Buddha for his homeland is to rediscover Prince Siddhartha?the man who became the most famous Indian of all time while meditating under a fig tree in Bihar. Going back to the earliest Buddhist documents, Mishra recreates the scene in eastern India in the 6th century B.C., when a young aristocrat who has abandoned his wife and fortune, stumbles through Bihar searching for a way to end misery in the world. Restless, curious, lonely and sometimes arrogant, Mishra's Buddha is an ordinary man confronting problems that face ordinary...
...spot, where both dishes and drinks are infused with fragrance. Chef Daniel Patterson has created recipes that use essential oils derived from such ingredients as saffron, grapefruit and coriander. Scented syrups, sugars and salts are melded into dishes like green tea-scented chicken soup and pork chops with coffee fig sauce, as well as specialty cocktails like the Fountain of Youth, whose ingredients include lime vodka, fresh cucumber-and-honeydew puree and essence of spearmint. Peers such as acclaimed chef David Kinch of the restaurant Manresa in Los Gatos, California, salute Patterson for breaking new ground...
...spot, where both dishes and drinks are infused with fragrance. Chef Daniel Patterson has created recipes that use essential oils derived from such ingredients as saffron, grapefruit and cilantro. Scented syrups, sugars and salts are melded into dishes like green tea-- scented chicken soup and pork chops with coffee fig sauce, as well as specialty cocktails like the Fountain of Youth, whose ingredients include lime vodka, fresh cucumber and honeydew puree and essence of spearmint. Peers say Patterson is breaking new ground in the way he employs scent to amplify flavor. "Aroma really is the most central part...
...Supreme Leader is allowing himself to smile, he could soon have regrets if the election results so neutralize the opposition that the hard-liners lose the fig leaf of respectability the reformers have provided for Iranians wanting change and for wary Western governments...
...find it appealing—simply bears no relation to the world around us. The special relationship between the two countries seems, as far as the current administration in Washington is concerned, to exist only so that the British can support American foreign policies, thereby lending them the fig leaf of international legitimacy. Blair, for one, appears to be sincere in his conviction that pre-emptive action is the only way to stamp out the threat of international terrorism. Nevertheless, the belief that Britain is acting as nothing more than America’s lackey in a blinkered and immoral...