Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transformed a stark moonscape of black lava rock with not so much as a sprig of vegetation into a 62-acre tropical garden, ringed by three towers, 1,241 rooms, seven restaurants, 75,000 sq. ft. of convention space, a 17,500-sq.-ft. health spa, 1,640 transplanted coconut-palm trees at $1,000 apiece and water everywhere else. The design is the work of Christopher Hemmeter, a sort of revolutionary in the resort business. His tastes run toward the liquid: private lagoons full of sociable fish, waterfalls, whirlpools, water slides and vast, curvaceous pools. Distinction lies in myriad...
...move, which affects such items as Kellogg's Cracklin' Oat Bran cereal, Keebler's Soft Batch cookies, Pepperidge Farm's Goldfish crackers and Sunshine's Hydrox cookies, is prompted by health considerations -- and rising consumer pressure. Manufacturers have long been partial to the balmy-sounding vegetable oils -- coconut, palm-kernel and palm -- mainly because they impart a nongreasy taste and texture and extend the shelf life of products. But they are also high in saturated fat, the prime booster of blood-cholesterol levels. Coconut oil contains 92% saturated fat, palm-kernel oil 86% and palm oil 51%. In comparison...
Although many of the manufacturers targeted by Sokolof are revising their products, they all insist that the changes were long in the works. Says Joseph Stewart, a vice president at Kellogg, which in December began replacing the coconut oil in its Cracklin' Oat Bran cereal with a blend of cottonseed and soybean oil: "It would be impossible to do the R. and D. and change our ingredients overnight." But he concedes that "Mr. Sokolof did create a sense of urgency for us to move faster...
...food industry is slowly adapting to the recommended changes in diet. Some hotels and restaurants now offer low-fat, low-cholesterol menus. Sunshine Biscuits, maker of Hydrox cookies, is no longer using coconut oil in its products and soon plans to eliminate palm oil, both of which are cholesterol- boosting saturated fats. By next summer an American Heart Association seal of approval may be carried on foods that meet its heart-healthy guidelines...
True, traces of an earlier era persist in the Lechmere area. The smell of chocolate and peppermint and coconut bits still assaults the senses in front of Borden's plant, and the Lechmere department store still sells cheap TVs. But these businesses now share the space with upscale office buildings and chic restaurants...