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not sure where to find the ingredients for this one, but …

Whole Stuffed Camel

1 whole camel, medium size
1 whole lamb, large size
20 whole chickens, medium size
60 eggs
12 kilos rice
2 kilos pine nuts
2 kilos almonds
1 kilo pistachio nuts
110 gallons water
5 pounds black pepper
Salt to taste

Skin, trim and clean camel (once you get over the hump), lamb and chicken. Boil until tender. Cook rice until fluffy. Fry nuts until brown and mix with rice. Hard boil eggs and peel. Stuff cooked chickens with hard boiled eggs and rice. Stuff the cooked lamb with stuffed chickens. Add more rice. Stuff the camel with the stuffed lamb and add rest of rice. Broil over large charcoal pit until brown. Spread any remaining rice on large tray and place camel on top of rice. Decorate with boiled eggs and nuts. Serves friendly crowd of 80-100.

- Shararazod Home Economist, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

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and now …

Leaving Provincetown soon. For the holidays, that is.

and I'm about to do something that you might hate. I'm working on poems about the Fantastic Four. There's a reason, a motive, a purpose. You must find the poetry in our heroes, and you must understand that the kernel of American heroes is identical to the kernel of American villains. Our greatest obstacle is the fact that what we love is also what we hate.

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