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Chef Chow's. located in the Atrium on Church Street, is widely acknowledged as the best Chinese restaurant in the Square proper. In addition to a succulent General Gau's Chicken, Chow's prepares a scorching scorpion bowl, a liquor and fruit juice concoction that literally comes to the table on fire...
...Raisin was too strong for our sensitivepalates, but the fruit was praised for itsplumpness and freshness. Raspberry Peach wascreamy and full of raspberry seeds, which provedthe ice cream was naturally flavored, but gotcaught in some of our teeth...
...grape juice yield cherry juice? Simple: When the manufacturer says it does. So complains the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that is pressing the Food and Drug Administration for rules requiring companies to reveal on labels the percentages of various juices in their fruit-juice blends...
...fruit-juice industry dismissed last week's charges as sour grapes. "If C.S.P.I. had its way, food labels would consist of nothing but green lights, red lights, sirens and warnings," said John Cady, president of the National Food Processors Association. Apple juice is used to give fruit beverages a pleasant taste, the industry maintains; publishing actual percentages would disclose trade secrets without providing any additional nutritional information...
...pastures surrounding the ponds and marshes of the Pantanal, herds of capybaras, the world's largest rodents, munch on the native grasses. Hyacinth macaws, the world's largest parrots, nest in trees and crack palm seeds disgorged by cattle, which eat the fruit around the nut. According to Charles Munn, an ornithologist with Wildlife Conservation International, the cattle fill a niche formerly occupied by extinct giant sloths, which dined on palm seeds thousands of years before the first Portuguese settlers arrived. This happy coincidence is one reason why humans here get along with the 80 species of mammals, 230 kinds...