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...market is set up between alleys surrounding decrepit apartment buildings. Elderly Vietnamese women sit frying pancakes while others skin fresh fish. Cuts of meat hang in front of tailors mending pants and enormous bags of rice prop up the occasional war victim without legs. It was here, in 1969, where my mom was sewing and selling dresses with one of her sisters. Amidst cackling chickens and radio reports about the war, my father stumbled into the market. Ma must have been beautiful to attract his attention. After all, he came looking for a wedding dress for his fianc?...
Aeneas and Harken were “exploiting, as many companies did, a fundamental weakness in accounting rules,” said Bala G. Dharan, a former visiting professor at Harvard Business School and a finance expert from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management...
...devoted explorer who scours the world in his search for the finest products, and his was the first shop in North America to age its cheeses in a specially built, temperature-controlled cave. Consequently, Formaggio can fulfill nearly any gourmet craving, whether it be for pistachio oil, Bhutanese red rice or fennel pollen. Aside from the lavish cheese selection, Formaggio crams its shelves with packaged delicacies imported from across the globe, as well as cured meats, pâtés, homemade sausages, olives and fresh pastas that line the front cases. It’s a heaven of specialty...
...started. The only cooking appliance allowed in Harvard dorm rooms is the microfridge, rented from Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) for the low, low price of $250 a year plus deposit. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. HSA’s microfridge is just as illegal as any other microwave, rice cooker, coffee pot or teapot that students might secret away in a corner of their room. But Harvard administrators don’t know this, and for about seven years, they’ve been protecting HSA’s virtual monopoly on the devices by repeating the mantra...
Jamaican curry goat went for eight dollars a plate, while a few feet away, falafel, humus and tabouli sizzled at the Sabra Grill; chicken masala from the Diva Indian Bistro and Thai fried rice rounded out a mix of ethnic dishes...