Word: dished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dish that once had to be served under such aliases as "steakfish" and "greyfish" find respectability? (MODERN LIVING...
Succulent Dish. A pioneer shark promoter is New Orleans' Preston Battistella, 50, one of the biggest fish wholesalers on the Eastern seaboard. In 1973, when he started handling shark meat, Battistella sold 60,000 Ibs.; in 1975 his volume was more than 300,000 Ibs. His biggest breakthrough came after he invited the New Orleans school board to lunch and served them "fish Creole." When he identified the succulent dish as shark, selling for only 75? per lb., v. $3.50 per lb. for pompano or snapper, he landed a three-month contract to sell the school system...
...free (sharks store all their fat in their liver), is rich in vitamins and minerals and contains almost as much protein as canned tuna. Shark is a highly esteemed food in the Mediterranean, the West Indies, the Orient (indeed, delicately flavored shark's fin soup is a standard dish in U.S. Chinese restaurants) and Latin America, where savory dried and smoked shark meat is known as bacalao de tiburón. In England, vast quantities of dogfish, a small shark, are sold in fish-and-chips shops...
...some restaurateurs contend that shark may become as popular as Mali-Mali, a dolphin dish that has become a prized delicacy in Hawaii and the West. Miami Entrepreneur William Doherty, who has built a $275,000 trawler-factory to fish for shark, calls it "the product of the future." Its fate will depend largely on the success of the strategy that U.S. restaurateurs are using to overcome the stigma of shark: capitalizing on it. At Gatsby's restaurant in Atlanta's American Motor Hotel, for example, Catering Director George Gold promotes his baked mako by putting...
...OBJECTIVE STATEMENT Mitchell makes most prominent is suburban dreariness. Several songs are explicit narratives of that dish-water despair, there's-no-olive-in-my-martini madness. In "Harry's House/Centerpiece" Mitchell interposes a jazzy arrangement of a 1950s love tune, "Baby, you're my centerpiece," with a desolate vision...