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Last September the Conde Nast empire, publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue and Gourmet, among others, spent $40 million launching the upmarket Traveler for those who prefer to go where there are civil ways and no civil wars. Under former Times of London Editor Harold Evans, Traveler (circ. 853,490) boasts of its "muscle and vision" -- ratings of not only the world's best restaurants but also the worst, stories more analytical than promotional. Evans touts his magazine's "truth in travel" policy and sniffs at competitor Travel & Leisure as "one seamless travelogue, where all headwaiters...
...that you've had your frozen diet gourmet TV dinner and played checkers with the computer, what other experience is left to simulate? Would you believe a video dog? A video...
TAMPOPO An Eastern western: the cowboy is a truck driver, his homestead is a Japanese noodle restaurant. Writer-Director Juzo Itami offers a free-range meditation on how gourmet fads deliriously distort man's second favorite drive...
...there is a single word to characterize 1987 in the gourmet marketplace, it would be silliness. Mustard came in for a drubbing with a variety of novelty flavorings, and deodorized garlic is in the wings. Dieters still want to eat their cake without having it on their waistlines, and speaking of cake, Texas is exporting cheesecake to New York, the home of the original. Frightened by a shaky market (and perhaps having exhausted their ingenuity), restaurateurs began to think small, and the future of the epic theme eatery is much in doubt. A stronger trend in dining...
Business jitters, shaky trends and silly gambits plagued restaurants and gourmet shops in 1987, the year of dining dangerously...