Word: pistachio
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...Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant (whose English-language signs, following a franchise dispute, now read simply FRIED CHICKEN). It is still possible to buy certain foreign-made luxury items, such as French perfume, that have been smuggled in from Europe. Sidewalk vendors with boiled sugar beets, pistachio nuts and sunflower seeds still do business in the streets. Peddlers hawk everything from blue jeans to plastic kitchen utensils. Even some discotheques continue to operate, illegally but discreetly, serving soda instead of booze. But there is a flourishing black market in liquor: Scotch, bootlegged from Iraq, sells for $60 to $90 a bottle...
Haymarket--get off the Red Line at Park St. and walk down there--is as good a place as any to buy vegetables and pistachio nuts at reasonable prices. A big open market with a European-type atmosphere, Haymarket is usually closed on Sundays, and very crowded on Saturdays...
...Israelis not only have restored some of the water collection systems left by the ancient Nabateans in the Negev desert, but are letting the runoff nourish flourishing orchards of almond and pistachio trees. Another strategy for making the Negev bloom: drip irrigation systems that feed small amounts of water directly to the roots of plants with the help of computer monitors...
...Houston, after only six weeks, elan claims 6,000 members (at a current $200 a year). Even more popular is Pistachio's, down the block from Neiman Marcus. The club ($100 a year) runs to silver, leather and Art Deco and boasts 16 computer-controlled projectors that spew an endless array of images (Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Tiffany diamonds, fire and snow) on the floor...
...Almost anyone will eat vanilla ice cream. But damn it, people get turned on by pistachio and butter pecan...