Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steel mills have slowed to part-time operation, a month's rice ration lasts barely three days, sugar is issued only four times a year, and housewives try to thicken watery gruel by adding grass. Hungry people from Tientsin sneak into the fields at night to steal corn from the stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees. Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair. In Peking, when the first fish to arrive in weeks proved rotten...
...Hoving offers comforting advice. "Be nonchalant," says he. If you choose the wrong fork or knife, don't fidget, keep eating. Sip soup from the side of the spoon or from the end-it makes no difference. Asparagus may be eaten with the fingers, as may artichokes and corn on the cob (exception: chicken). The finger bowl? Don't ponder its use; just remove it until time to dip fingertips. Other items...
...Glozer: Children's Concert (Wonderland). With the aid of some infectiously gay patter and a sunny, open voice, Singer Glazer plays on a squealing suburban audience as expertly as he strums on the guitar. Thirteen selections, including Hush, Little Baby, Jimmie Crack Corn, Skip...
...Corn soup...
They come wrapped in cellophane, frozen or dehydrated, under the generic label of "foods of convenience"-peas without pods, corn without cobs, potatoes without skins. What price convenience? Last week one amateur gourmet, who likes to cook himself, watched a housewife of his acquaintance brooding over the shelves at a Miami supermarket and launched into a Socratic dialogue: "How much do potatoes cost? About a nickel a pound. Right...