Word: exotica
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English 90qh. “Exotica in Renaissance Drama...
Reporter-Researcher Elizabeth Rudulph visited many of the dozen or more New York restaurants that qualify as new American. She also talked with specialty-food purveyors and producers, like those who supply endive and other exotica to the city's restaurants. Sums up Rudulph: "Americans are refining their palates. They are no longer completely satisfied with meals that do nothing but fill the stomach. The new American cooking can surprise the palate as well as satisfy it." Above all, enjoy...
Just as home-grown chefs are gaining favor, so domestic place names provide the new exotica on menus. Banished are the evocative references to such shrines as Burgundy, Provence and Lyons. Instead, the places dropped are likely to be El Paso, Iowa, Michigan, Memphis, Albuquerque, the Arizona Badlands and even the Bronx, where small farms and greenhouses supply endive and herbs to tony Manhattan restaurants and markets...
...feature the Murciélago roadster borrows from VW's Audi A4 convertible is roll bars that pop up within milliseconds in a rollover. But the Murciélago, named for a legendary Spanish bull so fierce it was spared by a matador, is as outrageous as Lambo's prior exotica, cars like the Countach and Diablo...
...cultural stew is simmering and ready to boil over. Just as Indian food graduated from big-city exotica to mainstream international cuisine, Indi-pop culture could become a new part of American pop culture. It certainly has the energy and glamour to curry favor with more than those who favor curry. It might even gain the hipness it has in Britain--where, as Meera Syal, the original librettist of Bombay Dreams, boldly said, "Brown is the new black...