Word: avocado
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...with giant red roe. A fat pink shrimp is split open to straddle a ball of rice, and a rather suspicious-looking orange mush in a seaweed packet turns out to be sea urchin. Mixed rolls were similarly elegant: Boston maki ($4.50) arrived in neat rolls filled with salmon, avocado and lettuce, Spicy Tuna ($5) walked a perfect tightrope between cucumber, tuna and subtly tangy spicy sauce. Cafe Japonaise has a chef who has turned sushi-making into a science and one can understand why he wants his clientele to get as much out of it as possible...
Appetizers include Tex-Mex standbys like nachos, guacamole and chorizo-studded queso-fundido. However, a few more innovative twists and flair, such as spicy Aztec soup ($2.95), with its thick tomato base brimming with onions, corn, chile and lime, topped with strips of tortilla chips. Smoky Avocado Chipotle Salsa ($3.95) resembles a cross between salsa and chunky guacamole, served with Tostones, which are fried plantain chips. Peel-N-Eat shrimp ($6.95) are an even more unusual addition to a Tex-Mex menu, served with spicy cocktail sauce and a side of salsa fresca. For grease-craving grazers, the Baja Sampler...
...speech which ranged from Alexis de Tocqueville to California avocado growers, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan R. Glickman addressed a crowd of about 100 yesterday in the ARCO Forum of the Institute of Politics...
...papaya. A dead woman's throat is "an estuary of color and disorder"; a father and daughter camp under "the quickening wounds of a million stars." A refrigerator coughs "like a four-pack-a-day smoker," and nothing seems impossible, not even a man killed by a hurricane-blown avocado. Drawing on the inheritance of an almost folkloric wisdom, Garcia is unafraid of suggesting that passion is "a frail interlude between the prosperities of loss...
...some of them were hunkered down in this Seattle hotel room. The participants belonged to the 1,500-member Color Marketing Group, the Virginia-based color cartel that has held a largely unknowing public under its sway for more than 30 years. It was the CMG that forecast avocado refrigerators in the late '60s and mauve motel rooms in the '70s and hunter-green automobiles in the '90s. And it was the CMG that predicted the 1996 consumer palette would be, in the words of former president Laraine Turner, "kissed by the yellow...