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That same delicacy is prescribed in The Time-Life American Regional Cookbook (Little, Brown; 527 pages; $12.95). Compiled by the editors of the most authoritative cookbook series ever assembled, this savvy potpourri ranges with wit and spice from Eastern Heartland chow to the Creole cuisine of New Orleans, from the Tex-Mex chilis of the Southwest to the fish and game specialties of the Northwest...
...oddities too localized to win general acceptance. For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder. False teeth are known colloquially as snappers, plaster pearls, chow chompers and china clippers. The term baby carriage is now used nationally, but baby coach is a popular variation in Mid-Atlantic states and baby buggy is used in the Midwest and West...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary Patricia Roberts Harris decided to begin her revolution at the bottom. To her staffs amazement, she insisted on lunching in the employee cafeteria, standing in the chow line like everyone else...
...African cam paign as authentic shots of Rommel himself. Director Winslow's cheapest shot is a reverse-action sequence depicting the German retreat: to the tune of Get Back, Hitler is made to cha cha cha back and forth like the cat in the Purina Cat Chow commercial...
...outpouring of gifts has also produced eagles by the squadron, including one soaring on a handsome water-wash scroll painted by Mr. and Mrs. Chow Chian-chiu, who were born in China and now live in Miami. Members of Girl Scout Troop 208 in Richland Center, Wis., patiently spelled out on a 21/2 ft. by 3 ft. board the entire Declaration of Independence-using tiny letters meant to go into vegetable soup...