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  • In Kerala, on the southwestern edge of India, he eats fish-head curry and discusses the Portuguese influence on Indian cuisine.

    TV on DVD 2012

  • There are plenty of more conventional recipes in Ms. Helou's book to choose from, including a Mexican pig trotters salad, sautéed chicken livers with artichokes and fish-head curry from Singapore.

    A Deliciously Offal Meal Bruce Palling 2011

  • It's one thing to introduce comic elements into a drama (I'm all for that) but to have fish-head aliens driving around in convertibles, being seen by locals who aren't supposed to know about aliens, makes it really silly for me.

    Monday maunderings ... Torchwood Season 2 karenmiller 2008

  • " When World ' s Fair officials insisted that Dal í get rid of an image advertising the performance — a reworking of Botticelli ' s " Venus " with a fish-head torso — he retaliated by hiring a plane and pelting the city with copies of a manifesto called the " Declaration of the Independence of the Imagination and the Rights of Man to His Own Madness.

    Savory Obscurities 2010

  • The south of Cameroon is largely Christian and French-speaking — so nothing shockingly unfamiliar, except eating the occasional fish-head for dinner.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Kate Fleurange 2008

  • It is experiences like these that attract me to global surgery -- even when it's midnight in the OR with lizards on the walls, no running water, and only fish-head soup waiting for you as a cold post-procedure dinner.

    Jesse Kornbluth: Mt. Sinai's Medical Mission: Why One Student Is Off to Liberia 2009

  • Established in 1999, McCurry adopted a Western-style fast-food ambience to serve traditional Indian and Malaysian dishes, such as fish-head curry.

    McCurry Wins Big McAttack in Malaysia 2009

  • Just ask Ford, which took a chance by transforming its '96 Taurus into what critics called "the fish-head car."

    Honda's Midlife Makeover 2007

  • If the RSA made their prisons more like Thailand, made them sleep 30 to a room on straw and fed them fish-head stew, less people there would turn to crime.

    The Scandal of Prisons in South Africa 2007

  • Also, if the fish-head were able to turn and look at the same object first with one eye and then with the other and back again, the object would successively appear to it to be different colors.

    Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006

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