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| | Balls and Walnuts: Gastronomy Domine I* |
 | | (Technically, it would be a third world legend, but it's true.) The world's rarest, most prized, and most expensive coffee is Kopi Luwak, which owes its distinctive "earthy, musty, syrupy, smooth and rich [flavor], with both jungle and chocolate undertones" to its passage through the bowels of the Asian palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus. |
 | | Only William S. Burroughs reaches such rhapsodic heights in describing the smell of bowels. |
 | | He reasoned that in Ethiopia, a different species of civet coexists with wild coffee beans, and thus: "In a forthcoming issue of |
| dshoffman.blogspot.com /2005/05/gastronomy-domine-i.html (855 words) |
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