Word: dished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cook. To the true believer, a sizzling chile con carne is manna from Montezuma, a concoction of beef, green peppers, herbs and other combustibles with an aroma, as the International Chili Society puts it, that "should generate rapture akin to a lover's kiss." As hot as the dish are the arguments that simmer around its preparation. Should a true chili include beans? Tomatoes? Corn meal? Onions? Is beef the best came? How many hours -or days-should it be cooked...
...separate "international chili cook-offs" this month-one held in Texas, the other in southern California-the "dish that won the West" inspired more culinary variations and impassioned claims than there are spines on a cactus. Those who cater to chili addicts are as contentious as their customers, but they agree on at least one fact: the growing and packaging of peppers and chili products have become a multimillion-dollar industry...
...that chili, like most folk foods, started out as an ad hoc combination of ingredients. For the range-riding cooks who invented it, chili consisted of scrawny beef-whose dubious flavor was masked by peppers and spices -and whatever else was around. In any case, it makes a nourishing dish. Roy M. Nakayama, 53, a New Mexico State University horticulturist who has studied peppers for 20 years and eats them three times a day, points out, "Chilis are rich in vitamins A and C. As antioxidants they also help preserve the meat and break down the fibers." Chili buffs claim...
...CHUL has done what it can by offering students an option," she said, "and it is now an individual decision whether to eat meat or a meatless dish...
...pass one at a time through the tightly constricted passageway of a tiny vein. But one scene, more than any other, suggests how far science must go before it fully understands the activities it has recorded. In this sequence, cells from the heart muscle lie in a culture dish, each continuing to beat at its own rhythm until it comes into contact with another cell. Once their edges touch, the two cells mysteriously begin to beat in unison...