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...nyonya refers to female descendants of mixed marriages that occurred in the area.) It's the original Asian fusion cuisine. Some of Nyonya's dishes?like the delicate but hearty pork dumplings?resemble what you'd get in typical Chinese places. Others?the slightly sour beef rendang or the piquant bean sprouts with salted fish?are more Malaysian. Much of Nyonya's menu is devoted to elegant versions of soups and stews sold in Penang streets. The penang assam laksa is one: a tangy fish broth flavored with turmeric and chili pepper, with vegetables and rice noodles. But the show...
...nyonya refers to female descendants of mixed marriages that occurred in the area.) It's the original Asian fusion cuisine. Some of Nyonya's dishes - like the delicate but hearty pork dumplings - resemble what you'd get in typical Chinese places. Others - the slightly sour beef rendang or the piquant bean sprouts with salted fish - are more Malaysian. Much of Nyonya's menu is devoted to elegant versions of soups and stews sold in Penang streets. The penang assam laksa is one: a tangy fish broth flavored with turmeric and chili pepper, with vegetables and rice noodles. But the show...
...take the timeless dishes your abuela (grandmother) cooked, like seviche, tamales and bobo de camarao (shrimp in cassava and coconut-milk sauce), and "deconstruct them," as Leal says, into haute cuisine with a presentation that can be as much fun as Carnaval. They have coaxed surprisingly velvety textures and piquant tastes out of soups like black bean or fish sancocho. Dishes include duck escabeche with white-chocolate carrot mousse, right, and grouper braised with aji, a sweet Venezuelan pepper. Desserts are made from Venezuelan chocolate or fresh fruits, left. The result: a refreshingly classical approach to the often hypertrendy world...
...adaptation the following year. He appeared in Odets? ?Till the Day I Die? and in the title role of ?Case of Clyde Griffiths,? an adaptation of ?An American Tragedy? staged by Lee Strasberg. After leaving the Group, Kirkland directed a few plays and wrote one Broadway flop. His most piquant credit was as the second lead in a revival of ?Outward Bound.? The director: Otto Preminger...
...film buttresses its arguments from reports in the New York Times and the Washington Post, Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud and Moore's own best seller Dude, Where's My Country? But Moore, a master propagandist and incorrigible entertainer, knows how to assemble footage in piquant ways. He shows a news clip of Bush on a golf course saying sternly, "We must stop the terror," then reverting to country-club form by adding cheerfully, "Now watch this drive." Moore precedes his section on the Patriot Act by noting that Attorney General John Ashcroft had lost...