Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said to have devised "Saratoga chips" to placate a cantankerous customer who complained that the fried potatoes were too thick. But if Crum were to taste chocolate-coated chips, a salt-sweet, cloying aberration priced from $6 to $18 per lb. (the latter from Yuppie Gourmet in Racine, Wis.), he might be sorry he started the whole thing. As a good chef, he would be the first to recognize that even the best idea can be taken...
Their first investment was $2 million to acquire a local 5,000-acre blueberry farm. Its products are now sold under the Native American Foods label in New York City gourmet shops. After the farm venture, the Indians bought other enterprises on or near their reservations, including two radio stations, an ice-skating arena, a fish-processing plant and factories that turn out audiocassettes and prefabricated homes...
WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM, Forward and Torres 5 6 THE FRUGAL GOURMET COOKS WITH WINE, Smith 7 7 HIS WAY: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF FRANK SINATRA, Kelley...
...food-and-drink diary for three days. The information is fed into a computer, which prints out an individual 20-page dossier, complete with sketches of where body fat is deposited plus diet and exercise recommendations. To keep participants motivated, Shape Up, which is funded by All American Gourmet, dishes out insignia T shirts, shorts and headbands...
...beguiled into writing about food by the engaging articles signed with that somewhat mysterious byline in early issues of Gourmet, the prospect of visiting Fisher brought with it some nervous excitement. Meeting a writer one admires is risky business, for there is the awful chance that the real-life personality will be so at odds with the literary presence that the written word no longer rings true...