Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, James Burke recalls the time he was introduced to yak-butter tea. It was at the Himalayan border pass of Jelep-la, nearly 15,000 feet above sea level, cold and sleeting. "A party of Tibetan muleteers was seated around an open fire. I was invited to join them and a wrinkled old hag was ordered to make tea. She poured a quart of dark, steaming tea into a wooden churn, added a quarter-pound of dirty, strong-smelling yak butter and a heavy dash of salt. After this was thoroughly churned, it was served in a wooden bowl...
...business were more neurotic than single women; with Singer Joni James, about how much you have to spend on clothes when you're successful (plenty); and with Bobo Rockefeller, when I got her favorite standby recipe for unexpected guests: 'Beef Stroganoff with lots of cream and butter...
...Faded Bloom. The President's displeasure was again plainly evident when he was asked whether he thought the Senate Agriculture Committee's vote to raise butter price supports from 75 to 85% of parity would cut consumption. The committee, he said, had made a grave error. Butter consumption had increased 7% after Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson cut price supports to 75% of parity. Now, the committee had wiped out most of the reason for that increase...
Denmark's three main exports are butter, bacon and engineers. Last week General Services Administrator Edmund F. Mansure picked one of tiny Denmark's exports to run the world's largest real-estate office: the U.S. Government's Public Building Service...
DAIRY PRICES will come down soon, predicts the U.S. Agriculture Department. Retailers have already passed on the 8?-a-lb. cut farmers took in butter prices on April 1, will soon pass on most of the cut in cheese (down only 1.2? a Ib. so far v. a 4.7? drop in farm prices), evaporated milk and ice cream...