Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the best-known exemplars of the new tropical taste are hidden away in suburban shopping strips. At Chef Allen's in North Miami Beach, Allen Susser's most popular dishes include rock-shrimp hash topped by a mustardy sabayon sauce, followed perhaps by seared citrus-crusted yellowfin tuna with a macedoine of papaya, mango and yellow pepper. At Mark's Place, North Miami diners line up early for Mark Militello's signature dish, curry fried oysters nestled on a tamarind-banana salsa and West Indian bread, all topped with an orange sour cream. "It's a long...
...Burke Williams urban spa in West Los Angeles, attendants smooth on plant and flower oils, each with its own purpose: some stimulate fatigued muscles; others soothe them. While classical music plays softly, clients are pummeled into tranquillity with a deep-tissue sports massage, followed by the application of cooling citrus- scented lotions. Owner Bill Armour's clientele has grown 350% in the past year, to as many as 80 people a day, and next year he will be moving to bigger quarters. In the austere '90s, it seems, a little pampering can still go a long way -- so long...
Already Kessler has fired several salvos at deceivers. First hit was Procter & Gamble. The conglomerate had received numerous letters from the FDA complaining about the labeling of its Citrus Hill Fresh Choice orange juice, which is made from concentrate. In April, Kessler instructed his inspectors to publicly seize 2,000 cases of the juice. Two days and many headlines later, the company, based in Cincinnati, agreed to remove the term fresh from its label. Soon after, executives at Ragu Foods of Trumbull, Conn., consented to drop the offending word from their Ragu Fresh Italian pasta sauces, which, like many other...
...convened in a Palm Beach hotel, nodded obligingly. "This is not the idle talk of a new commissioner," Kessler continued, to more polite nods. Then came the surprise. "Today the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis is filing on FDA's behalf a seizure action against Procter & Gamble's Citrus Hill Fresh Choice orange juice," he said. "The use of the term 'fresh' is false and misleading, and it is confusing to consumers." The nodding stopped, the lawyers grew silent, and many began to wonder, "Who is this...
Swarming in numbers not seen since the early 1950s, voracious grasshoppers have descended upon Florida's Pasco, Hernando and Hillsborough counties, near the center of the state's $1 billion-a-year citrus-growing industry. Already the insatiable insects have infested more than 10,000 acres of citrus groves, hayfields and pine forests. "The grasshoppers are so thick that the ground literally moves," says department of agriculture spokeswoman Michele McLawhorn...