Word: fish
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Tuna appears again in the form of toro sushi, an extra fatty version of the fish, highly prized in Japan for its supple texture, served over rice with a hint of wasabi. Sushi is all about the quality of the raw materials, and the toro at Fugakyu was as fresh as could be. Giant clam sushi, however, billed as the special of the day, was repellent and the one misfire of the night. It tasted like a gargantuan, fishy belly button...
...idea was to open a store that would sell children a good time along with their reading material. Wild Rumpus is part zoo, with a couple of chickens named Dalai and Elvis (which kids chase around), along with cats, tarantulas, fish and birds. Boys play poker in the store's Haunted Shack, which sits atop a Plexiglas surface that exposes a gray rat colony below. Saturday afternoons feature offbeat activities like sheep shearing. Customer Carrie Watson's toddler Isabel loves the Monday story readings and the animals. "I would much rather visit an independent than a large store anyway," says...
...showers, and you wash from a bucket. With the nearest telephone several hours away, my days were filled with hiking and horseback riding in edelweiss-speckled meadows. Evenings, by gaslight, consisted largely of food and drink. Round flatbread was roughly torn and piled high on a low table. Fish fresh from the lake, noodles and pickled cabbage?all smothered in sour cream?were served up as we sat around the low table on well-worn sheepskins. And for the main course, I was treated to the very fattiest (and tastiest) hunks of mutton. With a growing number of visitors, Kyrgyzstan...
...endangered or protected birds were killed by a woman in Florida who instructed workers to shoot anything that threatened her fish hatchery; she also killed an alligator...
...Ganging up on Harvard is like shooting a fish in a barrel,” he said, explaining that very few votes come from Harvard and that locals are often eager to bash the school...