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...pillboxes door to door. Preparations made from herbs--from aloe for regularity to valerian for restful sleep--are the hottest of all, with some 60 million Americans now swallowing doses regularly. And for those who crave a tastier fix, there are new so-called functional foods--concoctions such as fruit juice laced with ginseng, or corn chips with kava, the one claiming to perk you up and the other to calm you down...
...mention something about the banana. It was--How best to put this?--an unfortunate banana. Small, spotty and bruised--not at all the best environment, as the Madison Avenue folks say, for any ad. But when you're advertising on fruit, you're bound to get the occasional lemon...
...names are pushing beers, and when it comes to beer and sports, the connection is so primally made that I can't get worked up over it. And don't talk to me about Wrigley Field, either. That was the man's name, after all. Call the place Juicy Fruit Park, and then I'll worry...
Pumpkin seems to be the flavor of the night, altogether appropriate for the everpresent harvest theme. One dessert pays homage to the bulbous fruit in myriad ways: "The Pumpkin Patch" offers a pumpkin pot-de-creme, pumpkin strudel, pumpkin preserves, pumpkin ice cream and pumpkin brittle, all for $8. Enough to do Cinderella proud. For a bit more variety, the Harvest Ginger Bread is dense, not overly sweet and peppered with chunks of caramelized ginger. It is normally served with rice pudding ice cream (although quite tasty topped with the aforementioned pumpkin ice cream) and caramelized pear cranberry compote...
...actually agreed because the whole idea of going to that restaurant was pretty serious. So we walked down Mass. Ave. for two hours trying to find the restaurant, then realized that it had closed a long time ago. So we went to a convenience store and bought cheese and fruit to have a picnic in Brian's room...