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The courses are smaller and paced through the evening, lasting three to five hours. They follow conventions of menu planning that have been established over many years. Each course of a highly formal dinner (excluding some light courses such as sorbets) is usually paired with a different wine, beer, liqueur, or other spirit.
The name is a corruption of Tasajera, a Spanish-American word derived from an indigenous Esselen word, which means "place where meat is hung to dry". [4] [5]The 126-acre mountain property surrounding the Tassajara Hot Springs was purchased by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 for the below-market price [6] of $300,000 [5] from Robert and Anna Beck. [7]
The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is a center for Japanese arts and culture located west of Delray Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The campus includes two museum buildings, the Roji-en Japanese Gardens : Garden of the Drops of Dew, a bonsai garden, library, gift shop, and a Japanese restaurant, called the Cornell Cafe ...
College of the Desert (COD) is a public community college in Palm Desert, California. COD enrolls about 12,500 students, of which around one third attend college full-time. It serves the Coachella Valley of Riverside County. The college is federally recognized as a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI), receiving Title V grants. [2] [3]
The Riviera [a] is a resort hotel in Palm Springs, California. It occupies 16 acres (6.5 ha), and includes 398 rooms, as well as 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m 2) of meeting and banquet space. The property opened in 1959. It included the city's first convention center, and a golf course that operated for the next two decades.
The Cool Mikado is a 1962 British musical film directed by Michael Winner that adapts The Mikado in 1960s pop music style and reset as a comic Japanese gangster story. [ 33 ] The Black Mikado (1975) was a jazzy, sexy production set on a Caribbean island.
The Living Desert is home to over 500 animals representing over 150 species and welcomes over 500,000 visitors annually. Situated in the Sonoran Desert of the Coachella Valley and Santa Rosa Mountains foothills near Palm Springs, California, The Living Desert is set on 1,200 acres, with 80 developed as zoo and gardens.
Mikado (locomotive), any steam locomotive using the 2-8-2 wheel arrangement. Mikado yellow, a color; Operation Mikado, a military plan by the United Kingdom in the Falklands War; Michel Warschawski or Mikado (born 1949), Israeli activist; 2-8-2, a steam locomotive wheel arrangement, often referred to as a Mikado