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...chewing Jackie has had some adjustments to make. Even in the South, she finds the weather chilly; the food is not her favorite fish & poi. A recent happy discovery, that has added 12 Ibs. to her weight: grits & gravy. But most of all Jackie is homesick for Hawaii, her two daughters, and Chinese-Hawaiian husband Barney, a Honolulu fireman. Barney, on a day-on, day-off routine, helps cook the meals, does the washing, takes cafe of the kids. No golfer, Barney is often privileged to caddy for his wife, who outweighs him by 67 Ibs. The original golf widower...
Sunset magazine is a sort of Western-accented Better Homes & Gardens. A monthly, Sunset tells readers how to 1) barbecue pig in their backyard; 2) cook such exotic edibles as poi, geoduck and abalone; 3) build their bedrooms around the swimming pool; 4) keep a riding horse in the backyard...
...Chief staple: poi, a fermented paste made from taro root. "And an unseductive mixture it is," wrote Mark Twain, who nevertheless was fascinated by the native method of eating it: "The forefinger is thrust into the mess and stirred quickly around ... the head is thrown back, the finger inserted in the mouth and the delicacy stripped off and swallowed-the eye closing gently, meanwhile, in a languid sort of ecstasy...
...aquarium where famous pale octopuses swam in tanks. It was slovenly and filthy and loud. Hoarse-voiced women dumped their garbage from windows, chased their dirty children through the narrow streets. It was one of the great cities of the world. Its citizens had a proverb: "Vedi Napoli e poi Muori." ("See Naples and die.") But last week, ravaged and gutted, Naples was dead...
Radio fans two winters ago were astounded to hear a ballplayer guest-starring on Information Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...