Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time was, when you wanted such a meal, you had to go to a fancy restaurant. No longer. In major cities from San Francisco to New Orleans to New York City, home-delivery services are springing up to rush gourmet fare from restaurants to the couch-bound affluent. In addition, many top-of-the-line restaurants are delivering their own plastic-packaged food, largely to combat the still lingering drop in business since the 1987 market crash. As a result, according to the Lempert Report, a food-industry newsletter, U.S. restaurants expect to sell more than $10 billion worth...
...newcomer felt time-warped, mired in a past age of LP records, the ERA and two-wheel drive. It wasn't the new lingo ("persona," "agenda," "biorhythms"), nor the acronyms ("EIS," "CAD" and "MSG"). It wasn't the commercial wackiness of products like "gourmet dog food." It wasn't even the daily drive-by shootings -- talk about an automotive civilization -- in Los Angeles' gangland. Mayhem is not confined...
...fact, for the callow yuppies of Wall Street, with their abundant salaries and meager freedom, leisure time is the one thing they find hard to buy. Their lives are so busy that merely to give someone the time of day seems an act of charity. They order gourmet takeout because microwave dinners have become just too much trouble. Canary sales are up (low-maintenance pets); Beaujolais nouveau is booming (a wine one needn't wait for). "I gave up pressure for Lent," says a theater director in Manhattan. If only it were that easy...
...guidelines are realistic and feasible, requiring adjustments but no real deprivations. Americans may still safely eat meat, provided it is "lean meat in smaller and fewer portions than is customary." Says Dr. DeWitt Goodman, a member of the panel from Columbia University: "The recommendations are compatible with gourmet, delicious eating." Some Americans may dispute that, but they will have to decide which is more important -- good taste or good health...
...love to cook," Joslin says. "I would love to go back and do the full program to become a certified gourmet chef...