Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those unwilling to put up with pseudo-meat, seek out higher quality and real ingredients at Sage's Market on Brattle St. Break away from boring frozen options and pick up creative alternatives like Wolfgang Puck's Designer Pizza TM and Taj Gourmet TM Vegetable Korma and Shahi Paneer. Of course these fine options come at a price--the Puck's pizza costs a whopping $5.49. But, hey, sometimes you just gotta splurge...
...times has the air of stage sets from 15 different movies all collected in the same small block. Roughly 800 rococo hotels, inns and pensions crowd the village (one for every 12 residents), and at night the timbered buildings are full of trendy young couples sipping wine over gourmet French food after a long day of snowboarding wearing the latest gurobu and goguru. "This is Youngtown," marvels a Kyoto woman as she surveys a corner of the Echoland area where the Shop Jah Jah shares space with the Natchez "American pub," where the Magic Mushroom surf shop and Tijuana Cafe...
...Whatever gourmet chefs like Prudhomme do, the swordfish boycott will not be a complete success unless the seafood chain restaurants go along. Red Lobster, the largest seafood chain in North America, says that less than 1% of what it spends on seafood goes for swordfish, but that's a lot, since the company serves 150 million meals a year in its 685 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada. While Red Lobster spokesman Rick Van Warner insists that "we consider ourselves stewards of the environment rather than users," the company has no immediate plans to take swordfish off the menu...
...think people feel like they have more money and are spending it. We have had more foot traffic and our average daily sales are far higher than last year," he said. Ellis attributed part of the success to the increased popularity of gourmet foods...
...also found a couple of items for the aspiring gourmet: the Kitchen Coach, a television that plays cooking-demonstration CDs, and the Kitchen Assistant, an electronic recipe book. Of course, you could always consult your microwave...