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...blossomed into a cosmopolitan city, it has spawned restaurants that serve more than the down-home fare associated with the South. Even so, visitors should first sample the native cuisine. That includes such obvious specialties as crunchy fried chicken with livers and other giblets, fork-tender country-fried steak, braised pork chops, fried catfish and black-eyed peas. To these are added local esoterica like potlikker, a bracing broth that results from cooking pork with greens and is best accented with a dash of Tabasco. Small wonder that to some this is known as soul food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats Potlikker to Profiteroles | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...fork loader brings the crusher a gored and rusty Rambler. The crusher eats the Rambler. The Rambler doesn't fight back. It just shivers as it enters the jaws. The windshield pops. The crusher howls lustily. The crusher man working the levers slow and easy has a faraway look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maine Lines LETOURNEAU'S USED AUTO PARTS | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...YOUR CHANGE TO MAKE A CHANGE, urge check-out-counter signs at 32 Cincinnati-area Kroger supermarkets. When customers fork over a $20 bill to pay a $19.24 charge, they can donate the difference to the grocery's fund to provide fresh food for the hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charity: The Milk of Kindness | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...chips but not much to say. Great Big is, however, credited with the novel's title line ("I got hungry and forgot my manners"), which is Breslin's blunt way of making the historical point that people who do not have enough to eat are not concerned about which fork to use on the fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Growlings He Got Hungry and Forgot His Manners | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...modulated portrait. Watch him try to con a tourist couple by rattling off a list of bogus screenwriting credits, casually mispronouncing Ninotchka. Or, slumped on a couch, lamenting to a friend (Dennis Franz) that he has come up empty on a script the studio needs that afternoon: "Put a fork in me, Lou, I'm done." Cut and print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tinsel And Truth TALES FROM THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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