Word: cajun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rosa Mexicano, who regularly experiment with chile- flavored dishes like duck tamales with herb salsa, roasted oysters with green jalapeno strips and chile-laced chocolate cake. Amateur cooks have joined the craze with the help of more than 20 cookbooks devoted exclusively to hot and spicy Mexican, Thai and Cajun foods. Mail-order outlets like Hot Stuff in New York City, Mo Hotta Mo Betta Co. in San Luis Obispo, California, and Hatch Chile Express in Hatch, New Mexico, sell fresh chile pods, powders and jars of salsa, as well as such kitschy pepperphernalia as chile-shaped fishing lures, earrings...
Dozens of blackboards proclaim, in colored chalk, the dizzying array of meals available at Bartley's. The menu itself is jammed with handwritten descriptions of pasta dishes, fried clams ("no bellies"), hot apple pan dowdy, cajun fried sweet potatoes, and of course, Mr. Bartley's celebrated burgers...
...cope with the otherwise incomprehensible devastation wreaked by these storms. So it was with Andrew, a ^ simple name for people to curse, fear, blame and remember. Andrew proved a most powerful, if petulant, child, rampaging across the Bahamas and the populous tip of southern Florida and into Louisiana's Cajun country, with strength enough to hoist trucks atop buildings, destroy houses and vaporize mobile homes, impale yachts on pier pilings and even strip paint off walls. With winds up to 164 m.p.h., Andrew proved more expensive than Hugo, which ripped through the Carolinas in 1989, and more destructive than...
...from home left the first big hole in a child's heart (Only a Dream), or the appeal of North Carolina's rural landscape seen as "a blur from the driver's side" (I Am a Town). Even her least typical hit -- Down at the Twist and Shout, the Cajun-ragin' Grammy winner from her 1990 album, Shooting Straight in the Dark -- is a tribute to a place that no longer exists (a dance hall in Bethesda, Maryland). The new album's title tune sounds like a come-on to a quick affair until you listen to the verse...
...gravel-voiced, tough-talking street pol from Chicago who learned her trade under Lee Atwater, Matalin, 38, oversees the Bush campaign's links to 50 state operations while helping to hone its message machine. Carville, 47, is a Louisiana Cajun with a taste for the jugular. According to an article in Vogue, when Carville informed Matalin at a Washington dinner party that he was going to work for Clinton, she excused herself and promptly threw...