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...question, a mere ten hours of maniacal driving in the beckoning distance. Decisions, decisions. Shallow thinkers may feel that a householder who must budget his sanity-so much for taxes, so much for education, etc.-should not fritter it away by brooding about a children's dessert. They are wrong. What is clear is that at this stage in the decline of the West, instinct tells us that we have a right to live in the golden age of something. Why should that something be acid rain or rocket launchers? Why not-an Oreo-mint cone, please, with...
...amount of aspartame needed to match the sweetness of a teaspoon of sugar, which has 16 calories. Aspartame will be sold in tablet or granulated form to consumers next year under the brand name "Equal." Under the name "NutraSweet," it will be a food additive used in breakfast cereals, dessert mixes and powdered drinks. Searle plans to seek FDA permission soon to extend its use to carbonated soft drinks...
...vacations there will cost about the same as they did last year. Even at that, Italy is still a relatively inexpensive place to travel by Western European standards. A first-class meal, including a succulent pasta, a main course of meat, fish or chicken, a salad, dessert, rich espresso coffee and a good bottle of Chianti, can easily be found for less than $26 per person. A meal in a more modest restaurant can go for as little as $8. Gasoline is high-$3.25 per gal.-but that is offset by fares on Italian trains: $14 for a first-class...
Next to Mom, there was nothing as American as apple pie. Alas, that most national of desserts is in decline. According to a survey by Restaurants & Institutions magazine, apple pie now appears on the menu at 64% of the nation's restaurants, hotels, schools and other food-serving institutions, down from 88% in 1971. Among those chefs who still dish it out, apple pie is called a "good seller" by only 57%, vs. 84% a decade ago. It is still the nation's most popular dessert, but as Editor in Chief Jane Young Wallace points out, "There...
Burnett's suit arises out of a 1976 Enquirer item. "At a Washington restaurant," it said, "a boisterous Carol Burnett had a loud argument with another diner, Henry Kissinger. Then she traipsed around the place offering everyone a bit of her dessert" and "accidently knocked a glass of wine over one diner and started giggling instead of apologizing." Burnett demanded and got a retraction, in which the Enquirer admitted that the "events did not occur." Unsatisfied, she compared the Enquirer to "a hit-and-run driver who, when you're in the hospital, sends you a bouquet...