Word: pistachios
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...exhibit's extraordinary range of colors, from the full lush tangerine to white that shines with the intensity of the noon sun on Himalayan snow, comes partly from Persia (where shades of muted pistachio and oleander pink originated), partly from the British raj (all those brown and khaki earth tones) and partly too from what Curator Singh calls "the fugitive color palette"--the homespun miracle that would occur when a villager, out of necessity, dyed and redyed the same piece of cloth. Serendipity and splendor then: fashion as tradition. Fashion, indeed, as the warp of the social fabric...
...himself had a craving for a double dip of pistachio on a sugar cone, he'd go to Triples, in Syracuse...
...often as he saves hers, and a welcome addition to this summer's gallery of can-do heroines. Topol, as the wily Greek smuggler Columbo, should be in the "Guinness Book of Word Wreckers"; he is perhaps the first performer to demonstrate the art of overacting by chewing pistachio nuts...
...trio present their recipes, and raisons d'être, in succinct and practical form. Elevating basic family dishes to haute cuisine, their prescriptions range from the basic soufflé and chicken pot pie to such palate pleasers as cold peach soup, filet of pompano with citrus fruits and pistachio nuts, and filet of veal with crabmeat and wild mushrooms -capped perhaps with a topless chocolate cake or a walnut tart...
...product of $30 billion, bigger than Australia's, Canada's or Brazil's. Its 22.9 million residents' personal income will increase some 12% this year, compared with 10% for the nation as a whole. And they earn their living from such diverse enterprises, ranging from pistachio nuts to microchips, that the economy seems capable of adapting to almost any new trend or demand. Says Bank of America President A.W. Clausen: "The California economy is a different story altogether from that of the rest of the country. At the worst, we won't slip into...