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Their approach bears the most fruit in the popular four-week high-school-credit courses. Nine hundred villagers, ages 14 to 18, will be in one of these $1,850 sessions (some financial aid is available). "We try to get the credit villagers using the surroundings to experience the language and culture as intensively as possible," says Hamilton. "Nature is to German culture and history what the Wild West is to Americans and the ocean is to the British." To this end, some credit villagers will take part in Grune Welle (green wave), an immersion program in environmental studies...
Their reward will be lessons in rock climbing and hikes to high valleys, including spectacular Mahoosuc Notch. There, they just might get to taste the fruit of the cloudberry bush. One plant produces just one berry, which tastes sweeter than a boysenberry. They'll also find ice caves where they can retreat from the sun--unless there's a July snowfall that day (it's happened). Canoeing on the Rangeley Lakes affords stunning views and a chance to glimpse the moose, ospreys and bald eagles that inhabit the shores...
...author is the doyenne of American home cooking, and the best parts of her book are little sideline essays about the byways of food, such as planking shad, making piccalilli, a section on fresh-fruit desserts (including a silken strawberry ice) and the ineffable glory of peaches (part of the rose family, she reports). Lukins writes with the unforced authority of her affection for the U.S., which she crisscrossed 50 times to gather the 600 recipes here. United Airlines has just gone American and is serving 36,000 dishes a day from U.S.A. Cookbook. As porch reading...
...juiced. With GRAPEFRUIT JUICE, that is. Just one glass helps the body better absorb certain sedatives, antihistamines and other medications. The active compound probably comes from the squeezed peel--so eating the fruit itself doesn't help much...
...meal, students could also purchase "extras", including meats, fish, eggs, salads, fruit, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, milk, lemonade and desserts. According to the letter to The Crimson, extras were popular on days when Irish Stew was served as part of the American Plan...