Word: boar
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...three weeks she toured vineyards throughout California, talking to the men behind the new domestic boom. While little old winemakers long ago evolved into modern businessmen, she found that they remain the most convivial of hosts. She shared a meal of wild boar and vintage Pinot with a vintner in Sonoma, and sipped her way through 33 Cabernets at a tasting session in Buena Vista. She was guest at a château-size winery in the Napa Valley as well as a 10,000-acre vineyard near Monterey, and in the Alexander Valley she was led on a midnight...
...ethereal beauty of a Chinese scroll. The Annamese mountain chain sloped and plunged from the Laotian border eastward into the tight flatiron plains that hugged the coast, generating white water rivers and misty waterfalls. Woodcutters prowled the thick jungle at will looking for hardwood cinnamon; hunters tracked boar and rabbit, and farmers tilled neat, geometric rice paddies in the rich lap of the foothills...
...Come Right In!" In his backyard, Darling proudly shows more walls of art. "That one there," he says, "that's where we used to go boar hunting. And that's the Snake River. We camped there one night to fish, and next morning 2,000 Indians-see their tepees? -had camped right behind us. And there's old Seabiscuit, the horse that won nearly half a million dollars." On the wall of the guest house is a Dutch windmill; there are ballet dancers in the tool shed, next to some Asian peasants crossing a footbridge. The fuse...
With the Indians' help, Córdova-Rios quickly learned to move soundlessly through the underbrush, alert to the forest's early-warning system: the cries of startled birds, the fetid scent of the deadly fer-de-lance, the click-click of an enraged wild boar. Xumu, the old chief of the Amahuaca, also instructed him in jungle medicine. The stem of the paka nixpo plant, when chewed, prevented tooth decay for years; the extract of the ayahuasca vine was especially prized for producing visions that, Córdova-Rios says, actually enhance human intelligence. After many adventures...
...else." Just as well, because he cooks mostly on an open hearth where roasts turn on a spit, meat and fish are grilled, and vegetables bake buried in the hot ashes. Furthermore, he adds, "from time to time I climb to the rooftop and suspend a marinated rolled boar's belly or other delicacy in the chimney to be smoked." He is not really a masochist. The reason for this laborious approach is that the techniques of French cooking were perfected with just such equipment; and for Olney, to know the source is to know the soul...