Word: caviar
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...lamb's-lettuce, in their fields, they are paying premium prices for such produce at places like the Irvine Ranch Farmers Market in Los Angeles and Balducci's in Manhattan. Says Specialty Food Buyer Louis Balducci: "U.S. products are selling because they are good and interesting. Even American caviar is better than it was. In the beginning you couldn't give that stuff away. Now it's edible because the curing process has been perfected." To many connoisseurs, edible is still the most that can be said for domestic caviar, despite the praise it often receives from the food press...
...joint appearance at a Red Cross ceremony, Nancy Reagan carefully read a prepared speech; Raisa Gorbachev had largely memorized hers, impressing the audience with the resulting sincere eye contact. At a second tea party, this one given by an increasingly confident Raisa Gorbachev at the Soviet mission and featuring caviar and blini, the two First Ladies briefly held hands as they posed for photographers...
...board of directors at Iroquois, which besides Champale sells such products as Romanoff caviar and Major Grey's chutney, has decided to let Fox keep his job for the time being. The chairman owns about 20% of the company, which he built from a small brewery that he took over in 1965. Fox could legally retain his title even if he goes to jail. But if convicted of the crime, he could serve as much as seven years in prison...
...wave Italian specialties. In this sparkling café, with its black lacquer and mirror trim, a meal may include samplings of tiny clams in a garlicky tomato broth, tagliatelle in a meat and porcini sauce, chunks of snowy fish steamed with vegetables, duck breast rolled around a pureed olive "caviar." It is in relaxed contrast to Owner Piero Selvaggio's pricey, well-established Valentino...
...environmentalists, letting caviar retailers like Zaslavsky raise sturgeon is like letting the fox raise the chickens. The caviar trade is not exactly squeaky clean, and Optimus, the parent company of Marky's, recently agreed to pay a $1 million fine for buying smuggled caviar in 1999 to meet the frenzied demand for millennium parties...