Word: chili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guards threatened to "bombard" and "burn" him. Protected by Chou, one of his closest associates, Li survived. With strong links to the army, government and party, he is in a position to rise still higher, in spite of his personal crudeness. A man who loves spicy food and hot chili peppers as much as he despises table manners, Li was once addicted to opium. Since breaking the habit, he has become a heavy cigarette smoker...
Despite its long association with the U.S., Puerto Rico still spices its politics with Latin bravado. Thus, after last week's plebiscite to settle the chili-hot arguments over the island's political status, everybody involved claimed victory...
...staff is betting that White House Chef René Verdon can't cook chili, Pedernales River or any other style. And we'll bet two bits he's never sunk a fang into a puree of garbanzos. All of which boils down to: "If you ain't tried it, don't knock...
...Kennedys' treasure later won international renown with such dishes as chicken in champagne sauce and an incomparable quenelles de brochet. But one President's meat is another's poisson, and under L.B.J. the mâitre soon found himself tasting such Texas delicacies as Pedernales River chili and purée of garbanzos, a pease porridge cold that, in René's mournful words, is "already...
...sector of the economy Ne Win has left in private hands. Some 23 million Burmese live among lush paddies in a land larger than France, and there is plenty of rice for all. There is plenty of almost nothing else. Such essentials for the rice pot as onions, chili peppers, salt and cooking oil are now tightly rationed, available only in the state-run "people's stores"-or on the booming black market. Part of Ne Win's "Burmanization" program included driving out the Indian and Pakistani shopkeepers. Burmese replacements in the people's stores have...