Word: asparagus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the first sentence of the first book is "The year began with lunch." This flat-bellied author ("only one real meal a day") loves food with discriminating passion and in Provence has found his ideal turf. "You pay attention," he observes, "to when the melons are good, when asparagus arrives, to the fact that wild mushrooms are due in three weeks. It's about as far away from pretentious cuisine as you can get. Everyone's got an opinion or a secret. With a couple of questions, they'll talk about...
...parents spent their discretionary income in the 1950s. My taste was too elevated to tolerate frozen vegetables, supermarket ice cream, one-from-Column-A Chinese restaurants, off-the-rack clothing and clunky domestic automobiles. Yuck, how Middle American! My refined sensibilities required only the best: fresh asparagus, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Sichuan and Hunan restaurants, ventless Italian suits. But I was never one of those yuppies; they drove BMWs...
...table at Josef Niehues' house is elegantly laid -- sparkling glass, glistening silver, fine china, all arrayed around a platter filled with white asparagus and ham, a seasonal delicacy. But the seven men, immersed in conversation, pay scant attention to either setting or food. The discussion, about something that happened four decades ago, still rivets their attention: Was one of their teachers then an apologist for Nazism or merely an outspoken nationalist...
...toward a crumbling row of apartments. A few blocks away, in Halle's central market place, the CDU's campaign promise of quick prosperity seemed to have already arrived. West German vendors had set up tables in the square, selling everything from leather coats and potted plants to French asparagus and Italian kiwifruits...
...cuisine and natural food." Gingerbread-style Chez Panisse, located in Berkeley, features winter-squash tortellini in a black-truffle sauce as part of its $55 prix-fixe dinner. As an appetizer, Chicago's Printer's Row offers a choice of Brazilian mussel chowder ($4.50) or fresh white and green asparagus steamed with Sauterne and oranges...