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Patron Pascal Chevillot and his Slovenian decorator wife Pika spent years on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and in Los Angeles, before being drawn to Bali by what Pika calls its "mix of amazing culture and international amenities" (plus, she says, "We don't like cold weather"). At Sardine, chef Frédéric Pougault uses produce from the Chevillots' organic farm in the Munduk Valley and builds the menu around local seafood. Chevillot claims descent from four generations of traditional Burgundy cooks, but Sardine's "cuisine du soleil" is kept delectably light, judging by the likes...
...grilled and may not be quite as hefty as those, say, in Lisbon, where sardines are the stuff of everyday life. But accompanied by boiled new potatoes and fresh salsa they are an excellent advertisement for a fish largely spurned by locals. "There's a big canning factory here," Pika explains, "but in Bali sardines are the fish you feed to cats!" Well, an afternoon at Sardine will leave you purring. Call (62-361) 738 202 for reservations...
...eighth-grade social-studies teacher whose course covers World War II, I have used both Hiroshima No Pika and Faithful Elephants in my classes. I agree with Krauthammer that these works are not appropriate for the very young children that their picture-book format usually addresses. However, I feel that these books can be important tools in my class. At age 13 or 14,many of my students are beginning their first study of the Second World War. These books can lead to discussions about points of view, especially when youngsters have studied Pearl Harbor and the Bataan death march...
...most notorious of these, the one that in 1980 helped launch the whole trend toward social realism for kids, is Hiroshima No Pika, a shockingly graphic picture book about the dropping of the atom bomb and the horrible deaths that ensued. The book is not coy about who caused the suffering...
Hiroshimans flocked to a makeshift horse racecourse reconverted from an army drill ground, and into 17 movie houses (four more than before pika-don). The current feature was one of Japan's first postwar movies called Blast of Love. And for the children, there was a new toy, The Peace Game, priced cheaply at seven...