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...morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast, and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...
...CookShop program, running this semester in three elementary schools in New York City, students prepare a different healthy dish each week--most recently, fried rice with green beans, red peppers, mushrooms and more--and exchange letters with local farmers. "This is different from the fried rice I've had before," said a beaming Jose Gonzalez, 8, at P.S. 38 in East Harlem during a CookShop session last week. "Normally it doesn't have all these vegetables." The lesson seems to be sinking in: students in the CookShop program are more likely to pick healthier meals at the cafeteria...
Stuffing New research suggests that bread crust may contain a cancer-fighting antioxidant, pronyl-lysine. But to make stuffing really healthful, use whole-wheat bread or high-fiber grains like wild rice. And cook stuffing outside the bird, where it won't absorb fat-laden drippings...
...store's founder, runs the place with two of her sons and their wives, selling beer and liquor, cigarettes, canned goods, toiletries and candy. Her store couldn't be more picturesque, with worn wood floors, shelves of sake that reach to the ceiling, 10-kilo bags of rice stacked waist high and holiday decorations that say "Merry Christmas 1996." She wears three sweaters and a flowered apron and sports a couple of gold teeth. Stay long enough and Nakamura will seat you by the space heater, serve you tea and apple slices and regale you with tales...
...face adorned everything from posters to shopping bags. Iwasaki entertained world leaders and assorted celebrities, including Prince Charles, who scrawled his name?uninvited?on one of her favorite fans, and fashion designer Aldo Gucci, who spilled soy sauce on her kimono. The memoir details $5,000 costumes, how rice bran is good for softening skin and the difficulty of wearing okobo, or six-inch platform sandals. In his novel, Golden immersed the reader in the geisha world. Iwasaki tells about it, and there's a difference. Absent here are the lively prose, the vivid characters and the emotions that were...