Word: molokai
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...most important seasoning ingredient there is," says Thomas Keller, owner and chef of swanky eateries Per Se in New York City and French Laundry in Yountville, Calif. Keller offers diners nine varieties--including an ancient Jurassic salt extracted from a Montana copper mine and the jet black Molokai salt, which gets its color from volcanic ash and pairs well with foie gras. He even tops his chocolate caramel dessert with fleur de sel from Brittany...
...COLONY JOHN TAYMAN For more than 100 years, well into the 20th century, Hawaii had a policy of involuntarily and permanently exiling anybody who had leprosy to a tiny peninsula on the island of Molokai, walled off from civilization by the world's tallest sea cliff. The Colony is the story of the tiny, tortured community the lepers created, fighting prejudice, starvation, the elements, one another and their disease--which, we now know, was never particularly contagious...
...Hawaiian island of Molokai, pregnant women who want a doctor in attendance when they give birth fly to neighboring Oahu or Maui. The five Molokai doctors who once delivered babies have stopped doing so because malpractice insurance would cost them more than the total of any obstetrical fees they could hope to collect...
...afford to go back to the mainland U.S., and a dunning letter she sends to her father, who happens to be a dean at B.U., elicits a predictably chilly response. So Sharon drifts, acquiring another boyfriend and growing and selling organic marijuana in a jungle on Molokai: "We lived a pastoral life with capitalist interruptions...
...poetry: family dysfunction, poverty and ostracism. In her previous works, these problems result directly from the persistent distrust within Hawaii's multiethnic population. In novels such as Blu's Hanging (1997) and Heads by Harry (1999), Yamanaka--a third-generation Japanese American raised on the island of Molokai--wrote dialogue in the pidgin English she spoke as a child, for which her characters are stigmatized, as she was herself. But in Father of the Four Passages, the blame for the family's travails lies squarely within the home, and no one speaks pidgin. "I got tired of being the pidgin...