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...Navas is at the head of a syndicate that has bought 1,000 hectares of ranch land next to a six-mile beach to regenerate the dry tropical forest and build a tourism business....
...Some of them were there for the breakfast special — a thin-crust pizza topped with gravy, sausage and scrambled eggs....
...He was then handed a carton of eggs. “C’mon,” the attendant said to his surprised look. “We both know you’re going to fry them on the top of your hire car.”...
...Imagine buying a basket of 100 eggs for 50 cents each and selling them for a dollar individually at the market....
...In Yucca, the restaurant, a jolly cast of cooks in white aprons, all local women, were laying out my breakfast of eggs and warm bread with blackberry jam, fresh cakes and orange and passion fruit juice....
...The lack of eggs came as a shock, though — I worried I was missing too much protein....
...A “Royale” is proper old school; set egg custard cut into shapes to float in a consommé....
...L J Hickman dauntbooks.co.uk The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle “I have such good memories of evenings on book tour there, and of the wonderful people running it.”...
...A rough-talking, grizzle-haired man in his fifties, Roberts has the swagger of a ranch hand and a nicotine-throated laugh....
...A friend of mine took me to his father’s incredible ranch filled with palm trees....
...Nancy is perpetually picnicking in the Catskills with the grandkids (a recent hamper comprised brisket sandwiches, creamy coleslaw, devilled eggs and walnut ice cream)....
...Back at the ranch, a party was beginning....
...Devilled eggs, why not? As long as you use the best possible eggs....
...Campesinos, ranch matriarchs, child rodeo stars are brushing moustaches, manes and hooves with gusto....
...“Wrap the rich, fluffy eight-egg omelette loosely around the cream-bound, poached lobster tail and caviare, nap with melted butter and top with grated truffle....
...The day we meet, he is a wearing a ski-inspired sweater from one of his collections in the late 1990s and a concho belt studded with egg-sized chunks of turquoise....
...There are farms like Frank Reese’s Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch in Kansas raising old breeds such as Narragansett, Bourbon Red and White Holland (named for the plumage, not the meat)....
...“We’re not the Occupy movement,” he says, gesturing with half a hard-boiled egg that he has been holding for several minutes. “Civilisation and commerce have always gone hand-in-hand....
...“They come to my ranch, they pay me in pesos rather than bolívars and they buy 30, 40 or 50 animals at a time.”...
...When we’d bought in about a year earlier, the shares had been worth nearly half a million dollars—a significant chunk of our retirement nest eggs. Tejon Ranch had appeared to us to be poorly managed....
...At an estimated £265m, they were already too close for comfort, thought Hickman....
...coursework, all the students engage in at least 20 hours of manual labour each week, maintaining the general campus and its facilities, supporting the college’s 155-acre alfalfa farm or working on its ranch...
...Our shared starter, a plate of devilled eggs with bacon — “The best devilled eggs in the world,” says Stone — has arrived. Stone is drinking an iced tea. I have a Diet Coke....
...We could clearly see horses grazing in a ranch; and away there, beyond a row of solitary carob trees, meadows of alfalfa dwindling in size to resemble toy-railway lichen....
...One trip to look for elephants is unfruitful, but we are compensated with breakfast under a baobab tree, where an improbable spread of homemade bread, honey, marmalade, passion fruit, mango, bacon and eggs...
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