Word: caking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missed football that much," says Collins. "I thought it was a tough decision, but it really wasn't. I didn't miss anything. Football is just the icing on the cake...
...before he was finally steered to Rafael Loc, 79, a Tel Aviv lawyer who emigrated to Israel from Poland in 1956. Loc had not only been a lieutenant on the front lines but had also survived five years in a German POW camp. "As his wife served homemade Polish cake, Loc spent two hours telling me about his adventures," says Levin. "The fact that he lived through the war when nearly every Polish Jew had been killed is remarkable...
...Mayor Lester Gover, 84: "You won't find Bird in no guidebooks -- but then you won't find Kansas either, least in some guidebooks I've seen. That don't stop it being a neat little place to live and die in though." If you ask for a Teflon cake pan at East West Hardware, you are still told that is the sort of thing you are more likely to find in Baxter, 30 miles away, according to Marilyn Ryman, now living in Los Angeles. Her description of her homecomings: "Like seeing an old movie you've seen ten times...
...known to their Arab counterparts, a hundred or so Israelis who meet regularly with an equally small number of Palestinians for round-table discussions that have all the naive earnestness of 1960s-style encounter-group sessions. Their meetings are arranged secretly with code words; they debate over coffee and cake in one another's homes; they talk about mistrust and victimization. The Jews recall the Holocaust, the Palestinians the humiliation of Israel's occupation. In common, they all deplore the intransigence of Israel's political leadership...
...chefs have shown more culinary flair than Rosenzweig. Among her classic dishes: chimney-smoked lobster glossed with tarragon butter and buttressed against a crisp cake of threadlike Chinese noodles; roast quail with rhubarb bedded down on dandelion greens; and homespun corn cakes topped with caviar and creme fraiche. Similarly, Joyce Goldstein, chef-owner of the stylish Square One in San Francisco, creates an aura of flavor unity on a menu that may offer crusty Italian bread, Russian mushroom soup, pungent Korean steak and a very American spiced persimmon pudding...