Queensland nut

Bob McDonnell went from GOP family-values godsend to blaming everything on his ‘nut bag’ wife.

This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.

It is prepared from the nut of the areca palm, one of the most beautiful trees in the world.

For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.

We had each of us a fresh cocoa-nut with a hole bored in it, containing at least a pint of clear, sweet-tasting water.

It is about the size of a nut, with a brown verrucous outside; the edible part is white and tender, and the kernel black.