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...power meals. The plates, sprouting salad greens, look conventional at first, but in fact, the fare is novel: a combination of the vaunted California cuisine (roughage) and subtler accents from Asia -- tuna and salmon tartare, lemongrass, ginger. Called Cal-Asian cuisine or Pacific Rim cookery, it is the latest gourmet buzz...
...were ignorant or incautious. The smart ones had a textbook. It was The Joy of Sex, a 1972 how-to "gourmet guide," written in breezy language by British physician Alex Comfort, who persuaded his readers that with a little imagination and a sense of adventure, lovemaking could be more fun than sex. Comfort was widely derided as a flaky guru who took the mystery out of sex by describing it with the exactitude of a cookbook recipe. But he had it right: The Joy of Sex, witty, fanciful and mercifully free of moralizing, sold more than 8 million copies...
...sexual revolution is history. The rebels have kids of their own, and they must learn that sex in the age of AIDS is hazardous. That is reason enough for Comfort to publish a timely reconsideration -- The New Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking for the Nineties (Crown; $30). Comfort's message is that you can still have a lot of fun in bed, but you had better be careful. Casual coupling -- one-night stands, sex with strangers, group sex, sex without adequate precautions -- can be fatal...
Miami's South Beach is the center of the gourmet trend. Less than five years ago, SoBe's Ocean Drive had just one restaurant; now more than 35 bars, restaurants and cafes dot the beach, the best being Norman Van Aken's coolly modern A Mano. Regulars at the year-old hot spot dig into Vietnamese spring rolls with seared, black sesame seed-coated swordfish, or rum-painted grouper with a tangy-sweet mango mojo and crispy plantain curl. "The idea is for chefs trained in Old World methods to use New World ingredients," Van Aken says...
...brings to the lecture circuit. She has linked herself with Hollywood's cause-consciousness by founding the Centers for Living, bicoastal organizations dedicated to providing home help for those with life-threatening diseases. Williamson is also the prime fund raiser for Project Angel Food, a program that delivers 200 gourmet meals daily to dying AIDS patients in the Los Angeles area. Among the 800 volunteers who help with Angel Food are recording mogul David Geffen, Shirley MacLaine, Bette Midler, painter David Hockney and 20th Century Fox head Barry Diller. Most of those celebrities are not devotees of Williamson's think...