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Bahamians know their seafood: grouper, snapper and lobster don't come much finer than those found in the pristine waters that surround the 700 islands of their Caribbean nation. But what really gets the locals' gastronomic juices flowing is the humble conch. When it comes to scoffing gastropods, only the French and their escargots can rival the Bahamians' love affair with sea snails. Available in variations from salad to stew to chowder, the flesh of the conch (pronounced konk) is white, sweet and most closely reminiscent in flavor to clam. But in the Bahamas' own original fast food?ubiquitous across...
...This three-hour, three-stop circuit of downtown Boston may or may not have been a step toward chocolate connoisseurship, but it was definitely a step towards Dante’s Third Circle of Hell, reserved for the gluttonous. And as with other exercises in gluttony, the finer details—actual steeped tea as opposed to tea bags, eating leisurely at each spot as opposed to being hustled hither and thither—got a bit lost. I almost wish I had eaten at each of these fine restaurants separately. But hey, I’m not about...
...barely through the door when one patron noted, loudly and to no one in particular, “Rembrandt went bankrupt! That’s too bad.” I quickly moved to a self-portrait, where an old man stridently lectured his wife on the finer points of the painting. This was just the beginning...
...onto the president’s sneaksy ways, crooning to his own son on “Sail to the Moon” of the potential misuses of power and generally tapping his inner paranoid android to give the album’s final tracks a cornered hostility. Finer words have been published about this album, but don’t bother looking for them—just give the record about a dozen chances and it will gradually steal your soul...
...ACID representatives said the agreement reflects the priorities shown in a community-wide survey conducted last year. They also said there had been many opportunities for public comment, including monthly neighborhood forums and two small-group meetings held last week to explain the finer points of the proposed agreement...