Word: beef
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...evidence indicates that people who live near sprayed areas are not the only ones who may suffer from the continued use of this herbicide. Matthew Meselson, professor of Biology at Harvard, published an alarming study showing that dioxin is present in beef fat at levels that have killed laboratory animals. Cattle graze on the sprayed rangelands and ingest the herbicide. He also found disturbingly high levels of dioxin in mothers' milk which may poison nursing children. While Meselson cautions that his study involves too small a sampling to be conclusive, he is nevertheless concerned about the continued...
Indian pudding, fish chowder and corned beef hash. Has Julia Child flipped her toque? No, America's most visible French chef has simply decided that it is time for a new cuisine art. On Julia Child & Company, a new television series that PBS will inaugurate in early October, she will whip up eclectic menus liberally seasoned with dishes from the U.S. Each show in the series is built around a distinctive gastronomic occasion, such as dinner for the boss or a pre-football-game lunch. "We hope to interest people in good cooking," says Child. "We want them...
...gourmet is someone who would not fly from New York to Nebraska simply to check out a steakhouse rumored to serve beef in the rough shape and size of a softball. A gourmand is someone who would. Author Calvin Trillin did. His conclusion: "I've tasted worse steaks." Trillin, however, has an edge on his fellow gluttons, whom he describes as Big Hungry Boys. A peripatetic correspondent for The New Yorker for the past eleven years, he has an excuse to roam the country at will, eating, sometimes quite literally, off the fat of the land. A writer...
While men like Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster debated the future of the Republic in the hall, merchants in Quincy Market across the square sold sides of beef and sacks of potatoes to the citizens. For nearly a century, Faneuil Hall and its three-block-long annexes-Quincy, North and South Markets-stood at the center of Boston's commercial life...
Screwworms have been infecting cattle in all of Arizona, as well as in much of neighboring New Mexico, producing the most serious threat to ranchers there in five years. The worms keep the beef cattle lean, and infected portions of the animals cannot be sold. At the same time, Arizona homeowners are fighting an unusual abundance of black widow spiders, inspiring neighborly nighttime forays in which residents chase the invaders with flashlights, sticks and sprays...