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...boat is also extremely fast when headed into the wind -- an important advantage given that four of the eight legs of the 24.1-mile triangular course are sailed in that direction. Just to be extra sure, there is also one no-tech installation in the bow: a bag of garlic, an old Portuguese sailor's good-luck charm...
...encounters are as sinister. Cooperson recalls a large group of Portugese, "all dressed like extras from a '40's movie and smelling of garlic. They were afraid of the escalator and wouldn't go down it. And none of them could stand in line." Cooperson says they were found to be carrying fruit. When told to get rid of it, they began gobbling it down as fast as possible, and milling around in an uproar. "I hid in a corner," says Cooperson...
...Shurfine early harvest sweet peas, a can of La Choy meatless chow mein, two jars of Ragu Chunky Gardenstyle 100% Natural spaghetti sauce, a can of Trappey's jalapeno navy beans (flavored with slab bacon), a can of New Orleans French Market chicory coffee, a bag of garlic cloves suspended from the ceiling, a cold box full of sandwich meats, boudin and cheeses, a teakettle and a coffeepot, four fire extinguishers, three boxes of Raid mosquito coils, a can of Hot Shot fly and mosquito killer, kitchen matches, a Rayovac Workhorse flashlight, salt, a toolbox, two spinning rods, a case...
Lyolya was a scruffy little fellow with a ragged beard who talked in conspiratorial whispers, exhaling a fetid odor of garlic, vodka and bad Soviet tobacco. He told Westerners he had been a leader of the Komsomol, the Communist youth group, at a higher-education institute but was expelled from the organization and the school when he spoke out against the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was Jewish and had applied to emigrate, he said, but his parents were influential party members who opposed his departure and blocked his exit visa. He always wore a shabby old U.S. Army fatigue...
...with Joseph Baum, the inventive New York impresario who created The Four Seasons and Windows on the World. Baum now runs a promising, quasi-postmodern creation called Aurora, where eclectic new French-American cooking prevails. Among the better menu choices are the roasted pigeon with sweet garlic, lime-broiled guinea fowl and a pungent lemon hazelnut torte. Enthusiastic over what he calls le reve americain (the American dream), Pangaud says, "I love the open-mindedness of this country. You can try much more than in Europe with food and with your life. Besides, there are too many expensive restaurants...