Word: caking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. James A. Dewar, 88, Continental Baking Co. vice president who retired in 1972 and who in 1930 invented the celebrated Hostess Twinkie, a sponge cake filled with sweet cream, beloved of schoolchildren and bewailed by nutritionists, that with 40 billion sold has become the nation's favorite snack cake; in Downers Grove, Ill. To critics, Dewar said, "I fed them to my four kids. Twinkies never hurt them...
...family's pastry shop. Hannah, 18, minds the cash register and serves customers. Vinh, 17, who has kept his name because it is easy to pronounce as "Vin," works the cleanup detail. Christina, 15, washes dishes, and Jennifer, 12, aids her mother Therese with the baking and cake decorating. "American children don't understand," says Hannah. "They don't know why I can't go to the beach." As a consequence, many immigrants' children look upon home-grown Americans only as casual friends...
Later the hotel chefs produced a cake with white-chocolate icing. On it in thin dark chocolate lettering: WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY TRIP HOME...
...burgers and ice cream; tacos and pita as sandwich holders; chili oils and fruit sauces for barbecues. Surimi, a preserved-fish product developed in Japan a thousand years ago, has been reshaped for the American market to look like shrimp and crab legs. Tempeh, the Oriental fermented soybean cake, is here formed and flavored to simulate bacon and pastrami...
...five hostages sat at a long table covered with a white tablecloth and plates of cake and bottles of water. Some of the hostages seemed ill at ease in the company of their captors, who stood behind them in camouflage fatigues, some armed with automatic weapons. Conwell and others dodged questions that they regarded as sensitive, particularly those concerning the group of hostages who were being kept separately...