Word: canton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curiosity about the state of Chinese cuisine and the quality of restaurants -- what will be offered and how it will taste. To find out, TIME Food Critic Mimi Sheraton spent three weeks tasting a variety of foods in eight cities: Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Peking, Xi'an, Chengdu and Canton. Her report...
Food has its operatic side in China, and anyone who savors local color will be repeatedly drawn to the street food markets, like Canton's Qingping, an enormous, dazzling maze where private enterprise is allowed to thrive. Here, more than in the sparsely stocked indoor government markets, are stacks of jade green cabbages, gigantic leeks, silvery winter melons, woodsy mushrooms, mounds of gnarled ginger roots, pomegranates and persimmons, displayed alongside skeins of noodles, fish swimming in vats of running water, and live geese and ducks, sitting sleepily in place with their feet tied together. Also live in crates...
...House in Chengdu and the somewhat macabre copy of the Parisian Maxim's in Peking. Even Chinese breakfasts of rice porridge, pickles, pork and dumplings surpass their Western counterparts, although there were excellent room-service breakfasts at the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing and the luxurious White Swan Hotel in Canton...
...reports on Bakker by the Observer that caused the evangelist to cry persecution. The paper ran a 1979 story alleging the diversion of TV contributions for PTL overseas work into U.S. projects. The result was an FCC investigation, which was halted when Bakker sold off a TV station in Canton, Ohio. The Justice Department later found no grounds for prosecuting PTL. A subsequent story said FCC testimony had accused Bakker and his wife of funneling donations into such perks as a houseboat, a mink coat and a sports car. The Bakkers denied the accusation...
...Louw (no kin), the Minister of Transport, has called the book "worthwhile reading for those dealing with the future of our country." Hendrik Verwoerd, son of the late Prime Minister who institutionalized the apartheid system and himself a leading right-winger, said that while he did not accept the canton system as proposed, the book "provides an important contribution in breaking away from the dangerous unitary state philosophy into a direction which will open eyes to other possibilities...