Word: cajun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weld offered the night's best food. Media types and supporters farnished by a long day working the polls feasted on a spread set across one entire side of the Georgian Ballmom. They ate grilled Cajun chicken breast in a cream sauce, beef and vegetable kabobs and rumaki--which consists of a piece of chicken liver and a slice of a water chestnut, wrapped in bacon. Snickers had the opportunity to give on blue, red, and yellow tortilla chips, gus-camole, black bees sales, tomato sales, cheese, crackers, vegetables and dips...
...Certain foods go in and out of style," Goldsmith said, "We had Cajun pizza when that kind of food was popular in the mid-1980s, but we removed it a couple of years ago when it became less popular...
...script, written by Chuck Pfarrer, is tailor-made for Van Damme. Set in New Orleans its hero is Chance Boudreaux, a Cajun longshore worker in need of cash...
...Damme's thick accent is thought to be one of the reasons he has yet to become a major star. The Cajun gambit was last played in "Universal Soldier" to some box office success, but Van Damme can't fall back on this forever...
James Lee Burke won an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America for Black Cherry Blues, a 1989 novel about Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux, a recovering alcoholic and avenging angel. There's a New Age-ish twist to most of Burke's work. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (Hyperion; 344 pages; $19.95) is haunted by not one but two ghosts: a black man Robicheaux saw murdered as a teenager whose corpse resurfaces, and a Civil War officer sometimes accompanied by battered but unbowed troops. Throw in the Mafia, visiting Hollywood moviemakers, a serial killer and such fillips...