Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's 400-year occupation by the Moors. As they are in North Africa, almonds, egg yolks and honey are the major ingredients of most sweets; regional specialties, however, feature a delicious 16th century cheesecake, rich custards like tocino del cielo (literally, fat from heaven) and some memorable fruit flans, including a luscious apple tart with custard and apple-jelly topping. Que aproveche! Good eating...
...creation of this chocoholic's dream may not be "the ultimate chocolate cake," as claimed by her publisher, but the moist, dense, candy-like confection has one virtue: it is too rich to be addictive. The same could be said of Pearl's Southampton fruit cake, in which eleven varieties of fruit must be allowed to marinate for at least a week in cognac and Grand Marnier...
...there is good news for the calorie-conscious. For them, Heatter proposes a fruit survival cake and a whole-wheat yogurt date-nut gingerbread from Central Europe. One minor coup is the secret of the nut crescents for which the Austrian embassy in Washington, D.C., is renowned. Other fairly easy to make entries include Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' chocolate cookies, chocolate pepper pretzels, Joe froggers cookies (named for the inhabitants of a Marblehead, Mass., frog pond) and an inviting array of souffles and mousses, notably a sour lime mousse with strawberries. Frozen desserts vary from San Francisco ice-cream...
...best lemon tart, cognoscenti should head for Jane Grigson 's Fruit Book (Atheneum; $19.95). Here are disquisitions on 46 different fruits, with recipes for virtually every single one, from apples, the world's first fruit, to watermelon, one of the last to arrive in the author's native England...
Jubilant Administration officials saw the rally as a rousing endorsement of the President's policies. Said Treasury Secretary Donald Regan: "The stock market is bullish on America. The seeds of economic recovery planted last year are now bearing fruit." There was more than a touch of irony in the Administration's praise of the stock market's wisdom. Only about 18 months ago, when share prices started falling, President Reagan said, "I have never found Wall Street a source of good economic advice...