Word: exoticism
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No longer satisfied with apples and oranges, peas and beans, a growing number of Americans are titillating their restless palates with exotic fruits and vegetables. Mostly tropical and native to Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, this colorful harvest used to be found only in ethnic neighborhoods. Now many of...
That prediction is already coming true. According to Harold Seybert, owner of Fairway Fruits & Vegetables on Manhattan's West Side, such fruits as papayas, mangoes and kiwis can no longer be considered exotic. "I sell 100 cases of kiwis a week, with 33 in each case. That's 3,300...
The big I-told-you-so winner in the exotic vegetable game is Frieda Caplan, 63, the exuberant, feisty spirit behind Frieda's Finest/Produce Specialties, a Los Angeles wholesaler. Widely credited with introducing the New Zealand kiwi into the U.S. 24 years ago, she good-naturedly gloats, "When I said...
He may actually have moved it backward. Reagan indicated to Gorbachev that he wants to loosen the strictures on the development and testing of exotic defenses so that the 1972 pact would permit the U.S. to proceed unfettered with SDI if and when the program is ready to move from...
The publisher had no way of knowing that thanks to concerns about terrorism, the summer of '86 would be the period when hordes of Americans decided to stay home. But the timing of the appearance of A Book of Travellers' Tales could hardly be happier. Those who think that days...