Word: dishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saltaholic?" the insinuating voice asks, as the TV camera eye interrupts the hapless soul at his repast and observes him dousing dish after dish with a blizzard of deadly sodium chloride. It is a scare-the-consumer ad for NoSalt, a brand-new, fast-selling salt substitute. And a prime-time sign of the times. For salt has just pushed to the fore as the guilty food of the year- and maybe of the decade...
...Manchu Stew stand. This item was genuinely wretched--the recipe, as far as I could tell, was rice, soy sauce, grains of hamburger meat, and canned celery. A few blocks further downtown, a vendor was selling the same dish as a Wok-a-Doo Stew...
...with curtains drawn, was always at the rear of Brezhnev's motorcade. West German sources dubbed it a "hot line on wheels," and said it was in direct contact with the communications center at Schloss Gymnich. In the garden of the estate, the Soviets set up a dish-shaped microwave transmitter. Its purpose: to beam messages to Moscow via the Soviet satellite "Horizon" that overflies Western Europe...
...savory pie, in all its manifestations, is one of the mainstays of country cooking; it does not often land on three-star-restaurant menus. Yet in all its rural and urbanized forms, ranging from quiche to pasty and pitta to pizza, it can be a one-dish meal for all seasons, with all seasonings. Anna Teresa Callen, an Italian-born cookery writer and teacher who raises her dough in Manhattan, has the pie squared. In The Wonderful World of Pizzas, Quiches and Savory Pies (Crown; $14.95), she leads a cook's tour of pastry, piquant fillings and their origins...
...almost entirely from peasantry and province. A well-made Lancashire hot pot, a deep casserole of lamb chops and kidneys, ranks with a French pot-au-feu. Even shepherd's pie, particularly in Garmey's jazzed-up version, can be a treat. Indeed, a number of traditional dishes are in danger of becoming fashionable. Among them: lemony Sussex Pond pudding; Hindle Wakes, a prune-flavored cold poached chicken dish; Welsh onion cake and cockie leekie (chicken-leek) soup; chicken stovies, a succulent Scottish stew; syllabub, the English answer to zabaglione...