Word: carib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some restaurateurs are introducing Carib accents to existing menu themes. Among them is Roger Greenfield, the owner of Chicago's Dixie Bar & Grill. Lobster calypso, jerk chicken and pork, conch chowder and Jamaican Red Stripe beer are now on his basically Cajun menu. At the Omni International Hotel in Norfolk, Va., Food and Beverage Assistant General Manager Michael Przybyla is featuring a two-month tropical-night promotion with "gentrified Caribbean" food adapted for a conservative clientele...
Manley sharply criticized Reagan's Carib bean Basin Initiative plan, calling it a "smokescreen" through which the U S appeared to be giving more aid to its neighboring countries when actually total aid had decreased due to drops in U S contributions to multilateral agencies such as the International Development Association...
Columbus was one of the few travel writers in history who actually discovered the paradises they praised. To be sure, he could not say much for West Indian cookery in his day. Among the then dominant Carib Indians, who were cannibals, la nouvelle cuisine consisted of smoked or stewed Spaniard, followed in later years by filet of Frenchman and Londoner broil. Nor, for that matter, before paths were cleared through jungles and up mountains, could a seafaring man more than sense the islands' dazzling diversity of terrain or the richness of their flora and fauna. Since Columbus first gazed...