Word: potatoes
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...alive." He does stretching exercises along with a radio broadcast, then eats breakfast: whole-grain rice and miso soup with vegetables. He puts in two hours of picking weeds in his 1,000-sq.-ft. field, whose crops are goya--a variety of bitter gourd--a reddish-purple sweet potato called imo, and okra. A fellow has to make a living, so Toguchi buys rice and meat with the profits from his produce...
...Australia's last, and greatest, wild rivers seemed a natural progression from a 10-day bushwalk around Tasmania's tough south coast last year. There I'd trudged for hours through thigh-deep mud, learned to scoff at leeches and icy, slanting rain, come to love instant mashed potato, and fallen hard for the island's wild beauty. If you didn't even have to shoulder a backpack, how difficult could sitting in a raft be? "Don't worry about the paddling skills," the tour company's owner had said after quizzing me and my companion for details...
...dinner (usually with a refreshing glass of ayran, a frothy yogurt drink). Newer restaurants in the area offer various kinds, including those stuffed with eggplant or mushrooms. While purists may scoff at such modern varieties and argue that there can only be three types of gozleme?cheese, spinach or potato?travelers needn't be limited by such local controversies. Enjoy gozleme in whatever form you find...
...breakfast, lunch and dinner (usually with a refreshing glass of ayran, a frothy yogurt drink). Newer restaurants in the area offer variants stuffed with eggplant or mushrooms. While purists scoff at such modern interpretations and argue that there can only be three types of gozleme - cheese, spinach or potato - travelers needn't be limited by local controversies. Enjoy gozleme in whatever form you find...
Call Kim Ssang Su a man of the people. On a chilly night in the picturesque mountains south of Seoul, Kim, CEO of LG Electronics Inc., holds aloft a paper cup filled to the rim with soju, a clear, sweet potato-based Korean alcohol with a vicious bite. Surrounding him are a dozen of the 300 LG suppliers' managers whom Kim has spent the day lecturing and rallying. They have also been hiking up a snow-covered mountainside - necessary training, he says, for the grand plans he has for South Korea's second largest electronics firm...