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...Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, the 18th century French gastronome. His aphorism is especially true today. The U.S., long the melting pot of a dozen national cuisines, shows signs of becoming stratified along culinary as well as philosophical and political lines. The blacks are proudly eating soul foods, the hardhats feast on as much red meat as they can afford, and the white-collar liberals seem to be keeping down their cholesterol with chicken and veal. The youth of Woodstock Nation? With almost religious zeal, they are becoming vegetarians. They are also in the vanguard of the flourishing organic-food movement...
...what that means. Going organic poses another kind of problem, for that will mean that the Thanksgiving turkey must be imported from an organic farm for a dollar a pound. Even a formal wedding may nowadays be followed-to the dismay of hungry friends and relatives-with a feast of brown rice, nituke vegetables and Mu tea, ceremoniously prepared by the young bride herself...
...American Lag. There is a feast ahead in East-West trade, says Pisar, and he has written his book for those who want to partake of it. A Pole by birth, a survivor of Auschwitz, and a U.S. citizen by a special act of Congress, Pisar was a staff member of the Senate Foreign Trade Committee and later worked for the Kennedy Administration's trade task force. He wrote the proposals on East-West trade that became part of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act. Today, at 41, he is a Paris-based attorney whose clients include Borg Warner...
Since the opening of a splendid new theatre is a festive occasion, the following remarks about the performance will look like a death's head at a feast...
...very confusion of the situations in both Cairo and Amman might also keep all sides too busy to start anything. That at least is what Jerusalem hopes. For the moment, Israel's mood is relaxed; the nation last week celebrated the harvest feast of Sukkoth. The top news on Radio Israel, with a cease-fire in effect, was not battle casualties but the early arrival of the winter rains...