Word: foie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's a lot about McDonald's that angers the farmers--its sameness, its blandness, the culinary hegemony it represents--yet at the outset the demonstrations were remarkably genteel, with protesters occupying restaurants and offering customers an alternative meal of baguettes stuffed with cheese or foie gras. But lately things have turned nasty. Protesters are finding ever more to dislike about the uniquely American food--especially the very genes that make the McDonald's beef or bun or potato what...
...Smithsonian canceled Foie Gras: A Gourmet's Passion last week after animal-rights activists--including John Gielgud and Bea Arthur--objected, saying the geese who provided the delicacy were force fed. Is it us, or have museums been easily spooked this year...
FOOD FIGHT Roquefort cheese, truffles, chocolate bars, foie gras--the U.S. slapped 100% tariffs on these and other gourmet imports after Europe failed to lift its 10-year ban on American beef treated with growth hormones. The $116.8 million hit list, approved by the World Trade Organization, follows recent U.S. sanctions on items from coffee makers to cashmere over the E.U.'s discriminatory banana-import rules...
...would have been so easy for him just to write a check. People who write checks--at least those of the size he could afford--nibble foie gras at fancy fund raisers and cut ribbons at buildings named for them. Checks are simple...
...dictated the modernization of the country, the Shah threw himself a nationalistic "party of the century" at the ancient Persian capital of Persepolis. The guest list was glittery, and the extravagance made many gag: peacock stuffed with foie gras was a main course. A costumed parade of Iranian history, however, failed to mention Islam--a blind spot that became the Shah's ultimate undoing...