Search Details

Word: kuris (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...magical food. As an additional vegetable or starch, squash provides an option to students who enjoy its smooth texture. It has no place, however, as a consistent replacement entree for vegetarians. A student who eats butternut squash soup at lunch does not necessarily want to consume red kuri squash with curry for dinner but is left with few alternatives. Especially because HUDS is also urging students to cut back on their meat intake, more vegetable options with additional nutritional value should be added. This is not to say that we are anti-squash. Long Island cheese squash may be delicious...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Elephant in the Dining Hall | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...Consider the menu for President Clinton's last state dinner, for India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee: Darjeeling tea, smoked poussin, chilled green pea and cilantro soup, marble potatoes, wild copper river salmon, red kuri squash and rice, bean ragout, Swiss chard custard, garlic-chanterelle emulsion, young greens and herb salad, heirloom tomatoes, dry aged cheese blossom and 25-year-old sherry dressing. Followed by mango and banner lotus, litchis and raspberry sauce, "a majestic tiger's delight," honey almond squares and chocolate coconut bars. It's not Indian takeout, but there are strong hints of the guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fox State Dinner: Pass the Chipotle, Mr. President... | 9/5/2001 | See Source »

...Australia is one of the most desolate spots on earth. The nearest city of any size is Perth (pop. 376,000), some 1,450 miles to the south; mosquitoes and crocodiles infest the mangrove swamps; 12-ft. sharks cruise the lonely bays. In that unfriendly land, at remote Kuri Bay, a syndicate of Australians, Americans and Japanese called Pearls Proprietary Ltd. is turning out a product that has the world's jewelers agog. The product: fabulous pearls as big across as a 25-cent piece, of gem quality so fine that a Manhattan jeweler recently sold a choker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Pearls from Silver Lips | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...take between five and seven years in the process. By contrast, Australia's giant "silver lips" oyster shells are as big as dinner plates, can produce pearls twice as big as Japanese pearls in less than two years. The quality is so high that experts cannot tell Kuri Bay's from the best natural pearls without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Pearls from Silver Lips | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

| 1 |