Word: basmati
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reading the words SILVER BUTTER KNIFE STEAK FOR TWO off billboards, meditating on them, I had created a kingdom of elegance more durable than any restaurant where an immaculate young waiter introduces himself and tells you about the broiled marlin served in fennel mustard sauce on a bed of basmati rice and topped with shredded asiago cheese and lightly toasted pine nuts. I would never take out-of-towners to Murray's. Nobody whom I wanted to impress. Only my dearest friends. Only old Minnesota pals who grew up with Murrayism and know it as a symbol...
From White's, I headed to the Harvest Co-operative supermarket, which has a profit-sharing system which works like the Coop's is supposed to. There are more types of Basmati rice and oat-based grains on sale at Harvest than I ever knew existed. The supermarket also boasts a message board on which locals advertise for roommates ("Two Lesley Grad Students in expressive therapies and one creativity workshop facilitator seek non-smoker to share Central Square apartment with...