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...bright June morning, all the locked-up normalities come tumbling into the streets of Nablus -- the fruits and vegetables, the figs and grape leaves and fragrant mint, the baklava with its hovering bees, the butchered goats and lambs and live chicks in cardboard boxes, rectangles of softly agitating yellow fluff. The narrow alleys of the Casbah fill with the smells and bustle of marketing after curfew. Palestinian life in the steep-sided hills of the occupied West Bank makes one of its dreamlike passages back to the state of mind in which, for a moment, it feels normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Intifadeh Of the Soul | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

Irked by the trend, a New York state senator has proposed a law that would require an odor-proof wrapper for the fragrant flyers. "A lot of people have been suffering in silence," says senator Martin Connor, who cites 120 complaint letters. Constituents who suffer from allergies, asthma and migraine headaches claim the scented ads aggravate their symptoms. In a New York hearing last week, perfumers defended the ads. Said Michael Petrina, an industry spokesman: "We know of no scientific data linking such samples to any significant threat to the public health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEGISLATION: Down with Smellagrams! | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Ruby pomegranates and marinated apples, fragrant herbs and honey in the comb, slabs of homemade butter and mounds of cottage cheese, pig's heads dangling from hooks and hunks of beef fresh from the chopping block. The Sunday market in Tambov was a horn of plenty. Cooperatives and private farmers here had more varieties of meats to offer than you could usually find in Moscow. The bountiful scene seemed to deny reports filtering into the Soviet capital about food shortages in the provinces. Certainly, no one was starving in this land of the good black earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...Food (Harper & Row; $25) is a solid, serious and sensuous collection of her favorite recipes, sprinkled liberally with her usual didactic asides. A specialist in the cuisines of Morocco, southwest France and the Mediterranean, Wolfert wanders afield and offers up not only caponata, the Sicilian vegetable appetizer, and the fragrant tagine stews of Morocco but also the lusty Alsatian casserole of meat, onions and potatoes known as backeoffe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Cookbooks to Give Thanks For | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Shawcross ferrets out a wealth of political, diplomatic and intelligence detail, as well as a fragrant cache of jet-set gossip. In his prime, the Shah had a special yen for Lufthansa hostesses but also entertained a variety of lovelies flown in from Mme. Claude's in Paris. His other tastes were rich, but, oddly, Iran's leading personage did not eat caviar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Pain | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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