Word: chili
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coffee Connection, celebrates its first birthday this month. Perhaps the location itself is a jinx: replacing a short-lived flavored popcorn emporium, Top Dog seldom appears to attract lines of customers any longer than the phantom queues of its defunct predecessor. Featuring hot dogs with a variety of toppings, chili dogs, and freshly baked french fries, the hot dog king caters to a mixed crowd, according to Estelle, the owner...
...prepare her favorite appetizer, Susan Maurer fills won ton wrappers with goat cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, cilantro and some chili fried in peanut oil. "It's fast to do Asian things," says Maurer, a Berkeley travel agent. It does not occur to her that in her Asian "thing" Maurer envelops influences that reach from the Rio Grande to the Mediterranean. Call it Chinese ravioli, Italian won ton or Mexican kreplach, the result is a wholly new, wholly American creation...
Even as they learn about new cuisines, Americans are busy naturalizing foreign ingredients into native dishes: tofu, the cheeselike soybean curd, as the base for burgers and ice cream; tacos and pita as sandwich holders; chili oils and fruit sauces for barbecues. Surimi, a preserved-fish product developed in Japan a thousand years ago, has been reshaped for the American market to look like shrimp and crab legs. Tempeh, the Oriental fermented soybean cake, is here formed and flavored to simulate bacon and pastrami...
...combo plays local salsa-flavored music. Young women from Matamoros cross into Brownsville daily to attend Texas Southmost College. They party on the U.S. side in blue jeans and T shirts, on their home turf in cocktail dresses. Affluent Americans in El Paso drink margaritas and munch tamale and chili canapes at black-tie affairs. When they visit friends in Juarez, their parties start earlier and linger long into the night...
Yesterday was too cold for picnicking, but the Harvard men's squash team was as hot as red peppers in chili as the Crimson rolled over Williams, 9.0, at Hemenway Gym last night...