Word: exotica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thai Cuisine, the tiny kitchen at the far end of the Chinatown Eatery, is like the rest of the store-front restaurants, a congenial, family-oriented place. After the trauma of squid and other eastern exotica, something with chicken in it sounds appealing...
...quest for good food in China, the most useful quality may be a spirit of adventure. Nowhere is an unprejudiced palate better rewarded. Many foods considered delicacies by the Chinese cause Westerners to shudder. Among such exotica are snake, sea slug, turtle, bird's nests formed of swallows' saliva, dried jellyfish and webs of duck feet. The faint-palated would bypass such choices and thereby miss some of the world's most carefully orchestrated seasonings as well as much of the drama of Chinese food. Snake cut in thin slivers and cooked in a soup suggests the most delicate chicken...
After decades of neglect, the People' s Republic of China is trying to regain the glory of its ancient cuisine. As TIME Food Critic Mimi Sheraton discovered, Western travelers may encounter some disappointments, but with perseverance, sumptuous feasts and delicious exotica -- as well as good street food -- can be found. A guide to the country' s best restaurants...
Budge's eccentric meditations appear relatively tame once Grass (John Bottoms) plows into the room, dragging an I.V. stand with bottles pumping fluids into his every orifice. Grass claims to suffer from "heavy water." After some banter about medical exotica like "dangling paraphenalia" and "polyester blood," a nurse comes to take Grass back to the "Day Room" in the psychiatric wing. Then this nurse is taken away as a looney...
Things went far more smoothly with his Rough Wear collection, which featured clothes for would-be mountaineers and fishermen. The response was also favorable for his Santa Fe designs, which included such exotica as a ruffled pink suede blouse (price: $778) and a hand-beaded Navajo-patterned women's top (about...