Word: shrimps
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...most certainly prematurely. Her teens were spotted with spells at a finishing school in Montreal and the Julliard School in New York, and by age 21 she had endured a failed marriage, given up a child for adoption and worked at a string of odd jobs, some days making shrimp cocktails and others painting Mexican scenes on pottery...
...senior's offering of California Beluga Sturgeon to President Boris Yeltsin in 1992, in a menu that was otherwise more French than anything else. Similarly when the Reagan White House faced the challenge of coming up with something distinctly Canadian to entertain Brian Mulroney in 1988: Smoked salmon and shrimp mousse with dilled cucumber sauce, before an otherwise distinctly Californian fest of roast loin of veal, tarragon sauce, puree of sweet red peppers, spring asparagus, watercress and radicchio salad...
...says the crisis in gondola making is only part of a larger problem. "There are other kinds of boats that people don't even know how to make anymore," he says, referring to craft like the peata and the batea con la coda di gambero (boat with the shrimp's tail), both once used for transporting goods. "Those who knew how to make them closed down, and no one has replaced them...
...Feng responds to such sniping by dislodging the offending bit of dinner from his teeth. It is a piece of dried chili pepper. He takes it from his tongue and places it on the table. "This is me," he says, pointing with a toothpick. Then he picks up a shrimp from a plate next to him. "This is the intellectuals." Feng places the shrimp on top of the chili; the red flake disappears from view. Then Feng leans in, his raspy voice rising as he approaches the punch line. "But tomorrow morning, when you're sitting on the toilet...
...Thais eat about 20 different varieties of insects, but the best selling?the Big Mac of the bug business?is by far the takkatan, or grasshopper. "They taste a little like shrimp, and they're always clean," says Weerayuth Srisook, who is one of five wholesalers who supply more than 400 pushcart vendors and 30 or so restaurant owners. Originally from Khon Kaen in the northeast, Weerayuth, 25, with a sixth-grade education, started selling insects when he came to Bangkok five years ago. He grosses about $1,000 a day, clears about $225, and says business is getting better...