Word: salt
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...olive slowly, noticing the texture and, of course, watching out for the pit. (Stuffed olives allow you to munch all the way through and reward you with a red pepper for your efforts.) As the juice covers your tongue, notice the brightness of the taste and the mixture of salt and bitterness. One final tip: let yourself start slowly, eating an olive at a time with bread in between. As with other substances, it takes a while to build up a tolerance.RED WINEPeople have devoted their lives and writing careers to Bacchus’s favorite beverage. We?...
...giant cocktail party that is Harvard, I find my particular interests hard to relate in any depth. Any statement longer than one sentence seems to hit the boredom threshold, so I’ve reduced my identity to a few key phrases. Four years of toil in the salt mines of creative writing equate to “I’ve written some stories,” while the oft-requested summary of my thesis has now diminished to the pithy “It’s about Jews and their dads.” A love...
...leaden meat-filled entrees; and fast food, despite the occasional McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, struggles to gain a foothold. But it wasn’t principally the lack of nutritional fact bombardment that made the seafood paella so memorable, or the sea salt and saffron so vibrant. It was the convivial atmosphere in Barcelona, the celebration of great food and great company. In the U.S., all too often, the psychological relationship to food is skewed. For many Americans, food is sinful: it’s an escape, a treatment for boredom, a cure...
...States with mixed emotions on 5 March 1884 and crossed the border into Mexico, seeking refuge and the right to live their religion in peace,” recounts the Encyclopedia of Latter-Day Saint History with regard to the earlier Romney’s exodus, according to The Salt Lake Tribune...
Romney is a favorite adopted son in Utah. He was chief of the Salt Lake Olympics in 2002 and owns a vacation home at Park City's Deer Valley resort...