Word: ostrich
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...shipments and rubbing out foes, the gang members--who dubbed themselves Zetas after the radio call name of their original leader, who was killed in 2002--were paid as much as $15,000 a month, compared with their $700 army salary. Zeta bosses like Lazcano wore Rolex watches and ostrich-skin boots and imitated other famous drug lords by raising exotic animals on their ranches...
...violent sex in Metropolis, the most compelling parts are actually Gaffney's accounts of 19th century manual labor, which are as coolly, finely drawn as an architect's rendering. Her German leading man shovels snow and lays roads for the city, replacing New York City's "knobby, pothole-begetting ostrich-egg cobblestones" with slabs of smooth Belgian granite. He does time mucking out the fascinating labyrinth of Manhattan sewers. He works underwater laying the foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge in the silty muck at the bottom of the East River, and finally he gets promoted to working on the bridge...
Some of the imaginative food you'll get to experience? How about double-baked beetroot and rocket soufflé, springbok loin in balsamic broth with curried gnocchi, orange-glazed ostrich filet with sweet-corn and basil pancakes or bobotie (a curried meat and custard dish)? Or maybe you're hankering for karroo lamb and rose-petal ice cream...
...Smoking gives the humble British eel a sophisticated flavor. Locally caught smoked eel is available from Brown and Forrest of Curry Rivel, Somerset, who will smoke anything?trout, salmon, cheese, venison, ostrich?and deliver across the E.U., but not beyond. www.smokedeel.co.uk...
...Cake will keep you going on hiking expeditions in the Lake District or the Himalayas. Delivery worldwide. www.edirectory.co.uk Smoking gives the humble British eel a sophisticated flavor. Locally caught smoked eel is available from Brown and Forrest of Curry Rivel, Somerset, who will smoke anything - trout, salmon, cheese, venison, ostrich - and deliver across the E.U., but not beyond. www.smokedeel.co.uk Cottage Delight of Staffordshire will send home-made date-and-walnut cake, flapjacks, ginger biscuits, vanilla fudge, mango chutney, apple sauce, thick-cut marmalade and piccalilli (it's a mustard pickle) worldwide. www.cottagedelight.co.uk Upmarket emporium Fortnum & Mason of London 's Piccadilly...