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...delegates were quartered in luxurious villas and a new ten-story hotel, and their gourmet meals were prepared by an imported battalion of chefs (one from Maxim's in Paris). The estimated price tag for the extravaganza (including the construction of a six-lane highway, a new presidential palace and the conference-theater complex) was $800 million. That is nearly 75% of Gabon's budget for 1977, in a country whose per capita gross domestic product is $2,800 -the highest in black Africa...
...that actually give away beer (Cokes and Sprites cost 50?). Busch Gardens' Old Country, near Williamsburg, has a vast Festhaus where visitors can quaff Michelob and munch bratwurst. The company's Dark Continent, near Tampa, has replicated a famed Swiss inn and offers one of the few gourmet menus in the world that allows the diner to eat, sip wine and overlook the goings-on of free-ranging chimps, giraffes, zebras, ostriches and elephants...
...They do not notably bid for Rembrandts, breed horses or skipper their own one-tonners in the Bermuda race (all of which tend to be the pursuits of old wealth). By and large, they are not socialites. None of the dozens of new plutocrats interviewed by TIME is a gourmet, a connoisseur, a collector of fine furniture, old wine or (for the most part) new lovers-though they do tend to like fancy cars. Their relative austerity suggests not only that they are very busy-which they are-but also that the stimuli and rewards of new wealth lie less...
Even without promotional fanfare, about 2 million bottles of Perrier are sold in the U.S. each year, mostly to discriminating, well-heeled "Perrier freaks," who are willing to hunt down the drink in expensive gourmet shops and pay a dollar or more for a 23-oz. bottle. One of the latest In drinks at high-priced Manhattan restaurants is a glass of Perrier with a piece of lime. Source Perrier believes that sales of its nonfattening water will be further helped by the U.S. Government's proposed ban on saccharin, which will eliminate many U.S. diet drinks that...
...deeper problem. As we worry about the additives we are ingesting, we have forgotten about what the chemicals were originally added to preserve. We have been weaned on Instant Breakfast, raised on Tastycakes and Big Macs, and disciplined by the threat of "no dimes for a Dairy Queen." Our "gourmet" restaurants serve prepackaged, precooked Lobster Thermidor. Our cookbooks are compendiums of corporate-test-kitchen press releases. And the average sugar consumption in America--mostly of the refined, characterless variety--is one-third of a pound per day per American, which is more of this "poor nutrient," say the Hesses, than...