Word: peppering
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...waiting area of the restaurant is a small boutique of mugs, spices, and savories for tourists or loyal locals. Sylvia's Family Cook Book can be purchased along with her mixes of lemon pepper, cornbread, hot sauce, and muffin mix. A rousing gospel brunch begins on Sundays...
...Feng responds to such sniping by dislodging the offending bit of dinner from his teeth. It is a piece of dried chili pepper. He takes it from his tongue and places it on the table. "This is me," he says, pointing with a toothpick. Then he picks up a shrimp from a plate next to him. "This is the intellectuals." Feng places the shrimp on top of the chili; the red flake disappears from view. Then Feng leans in, his raspy voice rising as he approaches the punch line. "But tomorrow morning, when you're sitting on the toilet...
...Bangka, Chinese farmers have been growing pepper and other crops for generations. Zheng He's men passed this way, primarily to fight a Chinese pirate who had been terrorizing the strait from a Palembang stronghold. And though there were already Chinese settlements there, as well as in towns such as Tuban in Java, the Chinese on Bangka were mainly drawn by - or imported for - work as tin miners in later centuries...
...chief method of persuasion is to make the banal better so that people notice design more. He likes creating expensive furniture and perfume bottles just fine, but what really gets his juices going is the everyday: manhole covers, a cremation urn, disposable cigarette lighters, garbage bins, salt and pepper shakers, plastic pens. "I want American Standard to come to me to do the toilets for Home Depot," he says...
...last week's all-candy expo in Chicago, samples of Torture Scorchers, a new cayenne-pepper-coated confection, were distributed with cups of water. Candymakers are hoping other sweet newcomers will cause a similar sensation...