Word: pan
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...miso, which preserves and enhances the flavor. That's very Japanese. Then I'll turn to French technique in how I cook it." Ono points to his salmon dish: he cures the fish with salt and ginger, adds a pinch of green-tea powder as a counterpoint, then pan roasts it to a crispy finish...
...urchin. "The first time I made that, I thought I'd sell a couple to Japanese customers," Nish says. "Instead, it's become one of my most popular dishes." Another worker shaves thin circles of black truffle to decorate a wedge of hamachi, or yellowtail, sizzling in a pan of duck fat and bacon morsels...
Johnson alternates introspection with analysis, but can also be purely hilarious. He writes of going to Alaska to pan for gold and getting a flight with “the famous Richard Busk,” a local pilot. After crashing (mostly harmlessly) he learns that the pilot is famous for consistently pummeling the ground with his airplane, sometimes barely escaping with his life. His attempt to reconnect with his less discretional youth ends in a mushroom overdose in a tent surrounded by thousands of hippies in a forest. “I crawl into my tent. It?...
...gathering will produce a joint political declaration that bolsters the democratic solidarity of the hemisphere and an 18-point collective "action plan" that covers initiatives ranging from toughening the war against drugs and providing rural areas with access to computer technologies to the creation of a pan-American network of weather forecasters to assist in the management of natural disasters. And the meeting will undoubtedly announce significant progress toward the Holy Grail of the summit process: the creation of a giant Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005, encompassing 800 million people and economies worth a collective $11 trillion...
...including the global superpower, in a search for common political, social and economic ground. They represent a potential clash of every conceivable kind of interest (except one, since nondemocratic Cuba is excluded), made more acute by the economic uncertainty. And as a carefully stage-managed event designed to cement pan-American solidarity, the Quebec City summit, like its predecessors in Miami and in Santiago in 1998, inevitably raises questions about the hemisphere's ability to rise above national interests to make the Miami dream a reality...