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Food
A Case for Frozen Mixed Vegetables
When the Australian pop star Troye Sivan sings the line, “Take a trip into my garden, I’ve got so much to show ya” in his 2018 summer bop “Bloom ...
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World
Ron Rice, Creator of Hawaiian Tropic Lotion, Is Dead at 81
Ron Rice, a high school chemistry teacher who had been trained to explore for oil, but who instead made a fortune by concocting coconut-laced ...
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Food
An Exuberant Take on Onions and Rice, for Passover and Beyond
In 2015, the Rabbinical Assembly, an international organization of Conservative Jewish rabbis, revoked the longstanding prohibition of eating ...
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World
John Rice Irwin, Guardian of Appalachia’s Past, Dies at 91
John Rice Irwin, who collected more than a quarter million artifacts of rural life and established the Museum of Appalachia, a sanctuary for the ...
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Magazine
For Many Members of the Arab American Diaspora, Mansaf Offers a Taste of Home
WE WERE ARAB at home, mostly, and American in public. On weekends, Arabic music and the scents of cumin and sumac spilled through the windows in ...
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Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice
I ARRIVED IN Oaxaca on a rainy afternoon in May. We flew over pleated hills that formed a girdle around the Oaxaca valley, one of the most ...
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In Senegal, a Return to Homegrown Rice
NEAR MIDNIGHT, AT the top of a lighthouse in Dakar, the westernmost point of the African continent, I sat before a grilled whole fish as long as ...
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The Thrilling Dare of Scorched Rice
IT TAKES NERVE to scorch rice, to get a proper crust at the bottom of the pot, that layer of grains cooked past their time, bronzed and crisped ...
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Seeing the World Through a Grain of Rice
Before there was bread or pasta, much less meat or fish, there was rice. Growing up in Hawaii, Texas and Maryland, I ate rice three times a day ...
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Arts
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 50: What Was the Buzz?
It was the spring of 1970, and Yvonne Elliman, an 18-year-old singer and guitarist from Hawaii, had just finished performing at a London ...
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