Word: tuna
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...glass dome off a tray that held a truffle the size of a child's fist and inviting us to sniff. The aroma was seductive, but we passed on the $75 appetizer with truffle shavings. Instead I had seared Ecuadoran shrimp and braised lentils, followed by grilled ahi tuna on a bed of chorizo piperade and honey-pepper sauce. Both dishes were excellent. My companion began with scallops and figs and followed with a perfectly seared cut of roast venison...
...International Herald Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer, has had to endure a certain number of quipsters who want to know whether his next book will be about pepper. That's okay, says Kurlansky: "After 'Cod,' they wanted to know if my next book was going to be 'Tuna...
...cabinet, like Gushers, those capsules of wonderfully colored gooey chemicals that tasted sweet and for some reason were packaged and sold to parents of small children. Now that no one packs school lunches in my house anymore, the former snack cabinet is stacked high with cans of tomato paste, tuna fish, and other non-perishables. If my dad has been to the natural foods co-op recently, there may be a bag of “chunks of energy” that seem to be made entirely of congealed tofu and birdseed...
...President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia--a country plagued by violent anti-U.S. rioting since early October--stopped by the White House Sept. 22, when President Bush agreed for one year to lift 5% to 10% tariffs on 11 Indonesian goods, including copper, plywood sheeting, rattan, sorbitol sweetener and tuna. This deal was designed to deliver some help to Indonesia, with minimal impact on U.S.-based industries...
...only a matter of months before these Darwinian marvels learn to use a can opener, a skill that will lift them to a higher stage of mouse evolution - and to the more civilized pleasures of canned Mexicorn, Bush's baked beans, and solid white, water-packed tuna. In a generation or two, smart young mice will have a system of pulleys that will open the refrigerator door in the middle of the night. God knows how a new infusion of butter, protein-rich cheese, yogurt, red-leaf lettuce, and V-8 juice will invigorate the breed and enlarge its cerebral...