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...almost every store in Chinatown sits the canned Lychee, a tropical fruit that physically resembles an eyeball. Lychees usually have a black solid pit, but the ones from a can are pitless and 100 percent edible. Some students even enjoy drinking the syrup they come...

Author: By N. O. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Food That Will See The New Millenium | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...chef d'oeuvre was wood pigeon with olives. The pigeons were stuffed with beef, veal, sausage, pepper, nutmeg and truffles. After being sauteed, they were put in a casserole to simmer. An hour later, pitless, desalted green olives were added, along with cognac. So highly did Lautrec esteem the dish that his supreme put-down was to say: "They don't deserve my wood pigeon in olives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Dining with Toulouse-Lautrec | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Strongest event at the moment appears to the pole-vault, where the Crimson has a handful of good men headed by Pete Harwood. Confined to limited practice on the hard-surfaced, pitless, Briggs Cage floor during the recent indoor season, Harwood was still undefeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 Men Report at Initial Cinder Drill | 3/9/1945 | See Source »

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