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...Extra Virgin Olive Oil). Chef Peter McCarthy will serve a five-course dinner using Massachusetts-grown foods on October 27 at ‘’Savor the Seasoning: An Autumn Dinner.” The dinner includes a smoked goat cheese and apple butter tart, creamed parsnip soup, grilled beef club sirloin and red wine braised oxtail, and spiced pumpkin pot de creme with homemade maple-walnut semifreddo and cinnamon biscotti. The dinner costs $100 per plate, but the proceeds are being donated to the nonprofit Federation of Massachusetts Farmers’ Markets. EVOO offers a seasonal menu...
...capacity for work was enormous. By 1770, the year of his death, he had by his own reckoning completed more than 1,000 paintings and some 10,000 drawings-ranging from elaborate pastels like the 1738 portrait of Boy Holding a Carrot (which some critics argue is actually a parsnip) to swift crayon jottings of the nude. Collectors snapped up both his drawings and his rapid oil sketches, such as the vigorous and almost romantic Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs...
Cleaned Out. In a protectionist Europe, where everybody from parsnip growers to paving-stone makers was sheltered by tariffs, businessmen almost to a man fought the Common Market right up to the moment it became fact, fearful that it would put their protected industries out of business. Monnet's answer was to bring the Market into existence gradually, reducing tariffs at easy stages to allow industries time to adjust to the new competition. It has worked surprisingly well. In Belgium, some inefficient coal mines have shut down. In France, whose industry was the most highly protected...
Last month in Manhattan, parsnip-nosed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman launched in the U. S. the latest campaign of his Oxford Groupers-Moral Re-Armament (TIME, May 22). Last week Dr. Buchman sought to sell MRA to the nation's Capital. To the Washington Star he sounded off in the copy writers' slogans which, over a period of years, he has diligently worked up. Sample: "Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed...
...vegetation itself which gives the clue. Rooted in such beds of unintentional fertilizer, the growth is darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island the sites were covered with stinging nettles and wild parsnip; over burial sites elderberries were common. One site at Uyak Ray was covered every year with handsome forget-me-nots, the only ones found in the region. Monkshood and fireweed were other prominent indicators of sites...
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