Word: mango
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...happy tourists can always find Mickey, Minnie and other popular characters. Mulan will have her own pavilion in the garden, designed like a Chinese temple. Mickey even has a new red-and-gold Chinese suit to wear. Restaurants boast local fare, such as Indian curries, Japanese sushi and Chinese mango pudding served in containers shaped like Mickey Mouse heads...
This is the big-city version of Gymboree, the international kiddie-fitness franchise, and if you didn't know you were in the windowless basement of an apartment tower on the Upper East Side, the mango-sherbet walls, brightly colored play equipment and fuzzy purple apes and orange- pink-and-green spiders suspended from the ceiling could just as easily be in any small town or suburban strip mall...
...students of class CM2 at the St. Joan of Arc elementary school are playing with their food - and their teacher is delighted. The kids, 11- and 12-year-olds from the town of Laventie in northern France, finger fleshy chunks of mango with fascination and wince as they suck on lime slices. During the course of the morning, the class learns that fruits contain minerals, fiber, sugar and vitamins. "Who knows why we need vitamin C?" asks Carole de Bailleul, a nutritionist employed by the local school district. Three hands shoot up. "Without it we become tired," answers Margo Demarey...
Some of Dewitz’s gastronomical highlights over the week included tilapia with mango salsa (“crisp, refreshing, and very tasty”), Leverett’s grilled chicken (“superbly spiced and prepared”), coconut rice (“I’ve always liked toasted coconut”), and a Granny Smith apple (“since [a friend] recommended it two days ago?...
...widely publicized. Take, for example, the Thai Society’s New Years Party I attended last Monday. Had it not been for the Thai Society, I wouldn’t have 1) learned about the importance of Thai New Year or 2) have had the pleasure of trying mango sticky rice dessert. And there are many others like me. So many of these organizations encompass people that are not just descendants of a particular ethnicity, but that simply have an interest in that ethnicity and its concomitant culture. The South Asian Association’s main cultural production, Ghungroo...