Word: tree
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...cooking remains well represented on the nation's bookshelves. But now, as palates tire of the green chili, blue cornmeal and black beans of the Southwest, attention is turning to the vivid and ethnically mixed cuisine of the Pacific Northwest -- with its salmon and oysters, wild berries and herbs, tree fruits and game. The best culinary guide to the region is Northwest Bounty by Schuyler Ingle and Sharon Kramis (Simon & Schuster; $18.95). The enticing recipes should inspire Americans across the country to try piquant specialties like pickled Walla Walla sweet onions and such cross- cultural inventions as Sichuan pepper-broiled...
...York: Beech Tree Books...
...song Happy Birthday to You! is on the block. While the tune may seem like public property, it is one of some 50,000 copyrighted songs owned by the Birch Tree Group music-publishing company of Princeton, N.J. The company's longtime owners, the Sengstack family, are putting it up for sale at an asking price of at least $12 million...
...impression is confirmed a few moments later in the snarled traffic on Flemington's tree-shaded Main Street. People stream along the sidewalks and across the street carrying plastic bags emblazoned with pricey logos: ADIDAS, CALVIN KLEIN, VILLEROY & BOCH. Just who, a gridlocked visitor wonders, would come to rural Flemington, N.J., to buy such chic cityside items as Waterford crystal or Joan & David shoes? The answer: a growing legion of well-heeled devotees of factory-outlet shopping...
...make the land a composite of holidaymakers' fantasies. Here is a never-never land built on solid ground; a fairy-tale monarchy ruled by a Renaissance King and his classically beautiful Queen; an orchid-scented garden of scintillant temples, lush jungles, palmy white beaches and a capital built along tree-shaded canals; and a gentle Buddhist retreat filled with smiling, gracious people who make "tourist industry" sound like a contradiction in terms. The most pressing problem with the "Land of Smiles" may be simply that it is too hard to resist...