A man in California who has a small business manufacturing and selling specialty poles — tree-pruning poles, snake-lassoing poles, monkey-catching poles for use in airplane cargo hangars when monkeys escape from shipping crates and climb up into the rafters — agreed to manufacture our snagger and interlocking fibreglass poles to go with it.
He was a sergeant and supervisor of detectives in the 47th Precinct in the Bronx when he retired in 2003 to turn to pruning, climbing (his specialty) and cutting full time.
"My specialties include: poodles, really good salads, pruning hedges and trees, big hugs, humor, self-contracting, space planning, homemade popcorn, quoting songs and movies, ukulele, picking stuff out, organic gardening, sewing stuff, etc".
The breads are homemade — prune walnut is a house specialty.
Tortière, a Gascon specialty, consisted of whisper-light, phyllolike pastry stretched thin over prunes steeped in cinnamon and Armagnac, and garnished with sensational prune ice cream.
The specialty here is duck in many forms — in a strudel, crispy, stuffed with prunes, as a pâté, homestyle, Tisza style, Rozsnyai style or atop mashed apple.
Last year, as part of his and Winkhaus' five-year-old strategy of pruning Henkel's portfolio and focusing the company on its branded consumer products, Henkel carved out its remaining specialty chemicals assets and put them into Cognis.
Among Kol Tuv's specialties are imam (baked eggplant with onions and tomato), stifado (chicken with onion and prunes), sofrito (beef à la Corfu, with garlic sauce), grilled tsipoura (sea bream), turkey souvlaki and biftekia (lean ground-meat cutlets) and pastelikos (traditional ground-meat pies, a specialty from an aunt of Mr. Varouh).
