Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow, the birch-shaded grounds of Khrushchev's old dacha at Petrovo-Dalneye are being torn up to make room for rows of mini-dachas, which look like motel cabins, for middle-rung apparatchiks. The system of special stores for top people, stocked with Western goods and local caviar, is expanding...
Next evening the Fords were guests of the Shah and the Empress at a state dinner at the Iranian embassy. Along' with 64 others, the President and his wife savored a traditional Persian meal, including black caviar, lamb kabobs, rice with a duck and pomegranate sauce and head-cracking Persian vodka. Before leaving Washington for New York, where the imperial couple were to be the principal guests at a Pocantico Hills dinner given by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his wife, the Shah and his Empress, along with 800 personal guests, attended a performance of the American Ballet Theater...
...prepared by four of France's most brilliant chefs. In all, for up to $900 a stomach, they put away 1,800 bottles of Moët et Chandon 1969 champagne, 4,000 more bottles of red and white wine, 10,000 canapés, 264 Ibs. of caviar, 244 Ibs. of foie gras, one ton of meat, 250 chickens, 250 ducks, 1,322 Ibs. of seafood, 1,322 Ibs. of vegetables, 25,000 petits fours and other gastronomical delights in astronomical quantities...
...Soviet Union's greatest natural assets is the Caspian Sea, the world's largest inland body of salt water. Much of Russia's annual fish catch and most of its black caviar come from the Caspian; tankers ply its waters, carrying oil from Baku to ports in the north. But the Caspian is in trouble. Since 1930 its water level has dropped more than eight feet, leaving fishing villages and port facilities high and dry; the fish catch has been cut more than half. To compensate for the continuing water loss, the Soviets are planning a bold...
...Walter Annenberg are known for their table, and this dinner left nothing to be desired. It began with Iranian caviar (a recent gift from the Shah to the Nixons who brought it along), served with well-chilled Russian vodka; then it continued with slices of pink Chateaubriand served with a red Bordeaux, and Dom Pérignon champagne. In his toast, Annenberg expressed his appreciation to Nixon for his ambassadorial appointment. In his turn, the former President extolled the value of friendship, especially in the face of adversity, and lauded the assembled guests for their loyalty at a time when...