Word: ferne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hamburger Helper in the back of the cupboard and dumped the Crisco out. In dizzying succession, the yuppies hit us with the jicama, the kiwi, the leek and the miniature eggplant. By the end of the 1980s, thanks to their heroic efforts, every Midwestern town sported a fern- filled "Maude's" or "Davio's" offering white chocolate mousse and blackened fish. For those who could afford to eat fashionably, dinner replaced the theater as the highbrow event of the evening -- if not the only fun part of the night...
Then I found out how much it cost, and did the quick mental calculation that it was about equal to the cost of two or three large pizzas. That, I think, is a lot of dough for a fern...
Last Thanksgiving, we got the same group of Californians together and once again did Thanksgiving dinner, this time in North House. We also made Aunt Fern's Chocolate Pie, a Mathews family recipe which calls for butter, chocolate, sugar and not much else...
...friend the Magazine Maven. "The NEW YORKER," he writes, "is the journalistic equivalent of a restaurant under new management. The new maitresse d' is Tina Brown, lately of Vanity Fair, where she offered a heady mix of roadhouse and haute cuisine. She has replaced Robert Gottlieb, whose fern-bar ambiance left customers hungry for less. Brown's detractors have been hoping for the souffles to fall and the drinks to be watered at Tina's Place, but her debut last week will disappoint them...
...little band of murderous fern seekers are students at Hampden, a small, very liberal arts college in Vermont. Acute, cerebral and tasteful to a fault, the group have become acolytes of an eccentric Greek scholar who demands that what few pupils he takes study only his curriculum. There is Henry, rich, seductive, depraved; Francis, a homosexual with a very convenient house in the nearby hills; Athena-like Camilla and her twin Charles. Charles drinks too much, but then they all do, including Bunny, the feckless, unreliable...