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...Israelites' reaction and may best be translated, "Whatta?") Scripture describes manna as "a fine and flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground," which falls with the dew but melts when the sun grows hot. In June in the Sinai peninsula, a plant louse that feeds on the fruit of the tamarisk tree secretes a yellow honey-like substance that congeals in the cool of the evening but melts in the day. The similarity is not lost on the locals: for at least 500 years they have peddled it to religious pilgrims, most recently under the brand name Mannite...
...apple confit from Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef (Broadway; 224 pages; $35)--a recipe that involves cutting 15 peeled Granny Smith apples into 1/8-in. slices, layering them with orange zest and sugar and baking the whole lot for six hours, only to find...fruit stacked in sugar water instead of the promised "dark, rich mille-feuille of caramelized apples...
...first wild monkey, a squirrel monkey, small and elfin-faced. One hears a monkey in order to see it: it rustles branches or drops a piece of fruit. One's senses grow keener after a while; the idea of coming to one's senses takes on new meaning. I pick up a scent that the others identify as that of a tapir, a large, smooth, big-nosed mammal the size of a small cow. An electric blue butterfly flutters by my ear. Mittermeier snags a vine snake, green and camouflaged in its habitat. Everywhere is a sign of life...
Never as hard-core as Wozniak (who actually built the Apple I and II) or even Gates, it was Jobs, nonetheless, who made the key decisions that shaped the company and the PC industry in its formative years: to name his computer after a fruit; to package it in a molded plastic case; to hire world-class p.r. and marketing firms; and, most incredibly, to drop everything to build the industry-incompatible but user-friendly Macintosh after visiting Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and seeing its icons, its windows, its mouse. Jobs made us choose sides...
...menu will not include yak, authentic Tibetan fare which is hard to come by in Massachusetts. It will, however, include momo, a popular dumpling like appetizer. Thukpa, a hearty noodle soup, will be on the menu as an entree. Exotic drinks like lassi and fruit lassi, yogurt-based shakes, are also available...