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...England," complained the Marquis di Caraccioli, a discriminating Neapolitan foreign minister in the 18th century, "has more than 60 different religions and only one sauce-melted butter." Other Continental gourmets, to whom the savoring of a delicately shaded sauce is almost a religion in itself, have shared his uncomplimentary views of English cookery. But the English, firmly entrenched behind impenetrable ramparts of bubble & squeak, cold shape and suet pudding, have gone right on boiling their Brussels sprouts and slicing their mutton too thick...
...Magic Words. For years some food companies have made salt-and sugar-free products for diabetics and other special dieters. But the reducing craze has become so widespread that more than 80 canners now turn out some 60 different low-calorie foods, ranging from applesauce and peanut butter to French dressing and puddings. About 80% of U.S. supermarkets have added dietetic departments featuring low-calorie foods. Their sales total some $25 million a year, and within a decade, the industry thinks, volume should hit $140 million. Said one Seattle chain-store manager last week: "All you have...
...been the beleaguered dairy industry. A dairy-association survey showed that: I) at any given time, about one-quarter of the U.S. population is on a diet; 2) the first thing dieters are likely to give up is milk products. Per capita consumption of whole milk and butter has dropped 19% since the war. But consumption of low-calorie skim milk and nonfat dry milk has risen as much as 136%. To fight the diet menace, the dairy farmers will spend between $6 million and $10 million in the next year, touting milk as the "ideal food" around which...
...hurrying thousands, carrying empty bottles and string bags, streamed into West Berlin to buy a few cupfuls of milk and a handful of fresh cherries. This week they were back, with thousands more. Mayor Kressmann gave East Germans food coupons enabling each to buy five marks' worth of butter, margarine, meat and other foods...
...hapless attempt to redeem themselves, the Communist government announced that 84 carloads of hogs, 39 carloads of fish and nine carloads of butter were on the way to East Germany from Red Poland. But while this much conciliation continued, the Communist rulers began to talk a tough line, and demanded discipline in their own ranks. Sixteen East German workers, accused of rioting, were sentenced to long prison terms, and Soviet T-34 tanks were once again seen on the outskirts of East Berlin...