Word: bread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ready for the solid fare of the Balkans. The Balkan Cookbook by Radojko Mrljes (Hippocrene; $24.95) is aglow with the juicy, garlic-perfumed grilled meats, winter-warm soups and aromatic oregano- and onion-flavored stews. From Greece, Turkey, Rumania, Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria come such delights as baked corn bread with pungent Serbian cheese, seductively oily stuffed vegetable dolmas and appetizers enriched with the region's classic mixture of dill, cucumber and yogurt...
Pumpkin soup, roast turkey, savory bread stuffing, gravy, baked ham, whipped potatoes, glazed squash, whipped turnips ("not a favorite, but...don't quote me."), garden peas, creamed whole baby onions, salad greens, cherry tomatoes, celery hearts, carrot sticks, radish roses, fruit salad, two kinds of olives, whole cranberry sauce, rolls, pumpkin, apple and pecan pies, cider, "autumn toddy," fresh fruit, mixed nuts and dinner mints...
...which Milosevic has campaigned with marked success. While Yugoslavia's $21 billion debt worries Western bankers, its citizens have watched their standard of living decline steadily. Heating bills often consume half an average monthly income of less than $100, while housewives must stand in line for hours to buy bread...
...Initially a slave to the minister of the interior, who requires her to shave him every morning while he sits on his velvet-covered toilet, Eva moves to the home of a Yugoslavian potter. She teaches her the secret of creating images out of Universal Matter--a conglomeration of bread dough, dental cement and magic...
...without sampling some of the Italian pastries in one of the neighborhood's many bakeries (besides, I'd promised my roommates I'd bring something back). So I went to Mike's Pastry, a big, crowded place with tables and counterhelp that calls everyone "honey", where you can buy bread the Old World way (not in a bag) and walk down the street munching...