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...home, don't be surprised, and don't refuse. Hospitality is fundamental to Omani culture. Thesiger's Bedouin guides shared their few dates and salty desert well water with everyone they encountered. Luckily, the fare in the cities is more abundant. Omani delicacies include shrimp, dried fish, lentils and raisin-spiked basmati rice and tender spiced mutton, smoked for three days in an underground pit. But even that tradition is evolving. "We used to wrap the meat in banana leaves," says my host, a young Omani woman. "But now in Muscat we wrap it in foil...
...frustrating. “They all have personalities,” Spaulding says. “You learn that this monkey is really nervous, and that one doesn’t want to come out of her cage and will stretch herself across the cage to grab a raisin without actually coming out.” Of course, care is taken that no monkey is harmed in the raisin-grabbing process. “If it weren’t for the animals we wouldn’t be doing what we are doing,” Santos says...
...history department one-upped Romance languages with two platters (albeit black plastic ones) of about 100 white and dark chocolate-covered strawberries. Assorted soda, wafer sandwiches, Goldfish crackers, pretzels, gingersnaps, oatmeal raisin cookies and peanut butter cookies were served along with the same selection of Pepperidge Farm cookies that Romance languages had. Although the history department did lose on presentation—the Pepperidge Farm cookies were served in their paper ruffles and the pretzels in their plastic bag—the luxurious spread of foods did cause history concentrator Melissa M. Borja ’04 to exclaim...
Countless Harvard students qualify for the title of drama queen. At first glance, it seems that Chartey Quarcoo, a Lowell house resident, does not deserve this title. But Chartey, ever melodramatic, is often performing. Despite his role in last year’s production of Raisin in the Sun, he is not an actor. Chartey is a story teller...
Carr, who decided to go through common casting for Black CAST’s “Raisin in the Sun” production last year, says participating in the process will eventually help minorities become more involved in Harvard theater...