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...looking not only in their own backyards but also to one another for inspiration and to their governments for support. The Nordic Council of Ministers, recognizing the marketing tool that gastronomy can be, enthusiastically promotes the interests of new Nordic food as official policy. Pekka Terava of Helsinki's Olo restaurant points out that while each Nordic country is small, the region has a combined population of almost 25 million people. When it comes to cultural influence, there is strength in numbers. Noma's Redzepi sees all that open space as uncharted culinary territory. Did you know there are more...
Minutes away from the Gulf of Mexico, on the manicured grounds of the Ringling Museums sits a theater unique in all of North America. The Asolo (pronounced Ahs-olo) is an 18th century Italian wooden court theater, transported board by board in 1951 from the Old World to the New. Elegant, intimate, enchanting, with a triple tier of embossed balconies, the Asolo was the great Duse's home theater, and playgoers of a bygone day included Chopin, George Sand and Robert Browning...
...first, the words that rolled so precisely off the pronouncer's tongue ("All-right-y. Yours is an old spelling-bee favorite, the study of fishes: ik-thee-olo-gee") seemed a cinch. By lunchtime. Mrs. Wilford White, the chief judge, had rung her bell only 16 times to signal the fall of contestants. But after lunch, the pronouncer began to give out words that even he admitted he could not define...
...shall now have this week's spelling lesson, courtesy of Sunday's New York Times. Question: How do you spell "circus"? Answer: p-s-o-l-q-u-o-i-s-e. Explanation: Pronounce "ps" as you would in psychology, "olo" as you would in colonel, "qu" as you would in bouquet, and "oise" as you would in tortoise. Put them all together, they spell mother. Or possibly cholmondley...
Meantime an Indian with his shirt tail out, smoked glasses over his eyes and a battered Army campaign hat on his head climbed aboard the Houston. This was Chief Olo-Benanya of the San Blas come to call on Chief Franklin Roosevelt of the U. S. Chief Olo-Benanya spoke no English and Chief Roosevelt spoke no Chibchan. Nevertheless, the Indian managed to barter some spears and a handful of sharks' teeth for several cartons of cigarets from Mr. Roosevelt. This deal accomplished, the Presidential party sailed up the squally Caribbean, planning to land at Charleston...
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