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Nothing ends a Creole meal better than a praline ($1.50). Haitian pralines differ from American ones in that the island variety mixes cashews or peanuts with sugar and hardens them into asymmetrical disks. Wrapped in standard Saran wrap, these sweets are unassuming treasures. I purchased a praline for the road, and munched on it while walking to the T-stop. In seconds, the sugar melted in my mouth, perfectly complementing the flavor of the cashews...
COWBOY BEBOP. This anime entertainment from Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer Macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop?...
...Other ethnic groups looked upon us as the enemy, not to be trusted. Our village elders soon got together to burn or destroy anything to do with Japan: photos of the Emperor, flags, swords and even shortwave radios that could be turned into transmitters. Still, the police on the sugar plantation where we lived led the FBI into Japanese homes. Many people were rounded up: language teachers and martial-arts instructors as well as labor leaders and businessmen. My future father-in-law was arrested at rifle point and incarcerated in one of 10 relocation camps. Second-generation Japanese-American...
...Sugar-Coated Diplomacy...
...often referred to as the family that invented sliced bread. The founder of their retail business was a Canadian emigre, Garfield Weston, who created individually packaged loaves. His son Garry built publicly traded Associated British Foods (ABF) during the postwar years and acquired dozens of assets, including British Sugar and the luxury London store Fortnum & Mason. During Garry's 33 years at the helm, ABF's value soared by a factor of 30, and it is currently the biggest family-controlled company on the London Stock Exchange, with annual sales of $7 billion...