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...then the Soviets had preliminary agreements on most of their buy orders) in an attempt to keep the Chinese from entering the market too. Paranoid fantasy? Perhaps. Still, the Chinese did indeed hold up on some planned U.S. wheat purchases when the prices began spinning upward. Trager, an American gourmet and journalist, is the author of a vast international compendium of nourishment called The Food Book (1970). This volume is briefer - and more palatable. · William Doerner
...when complaints about meat prices reached him. Now he has a new suggestion: eggs. Decked out in a chefs toque emblazoned P.F. (for Plentiful Foods) he confidently launched a Butz omelet before admiring department employees. "Anyone can do this," he announced as he shuffled his skillet like a galloping gourmet. He was so right. The omelet was lumpy and overcooked. Next try was better, and for his efforts the show-off chef was granted membership in the National Good Egg Club...
...G.N.P. is a crude and sometimes misleading measure. As conventionally calculated, it fails to adjust for such nonmonetary penalties of industrial growth as pollution and the nightmare of city congestion, or for such additions to material well-being as the pleasure a husband derives when his wife cooks a gourmet meal instead of popping a TV dinner into the oven. Now, a more sensitive gauge has appeared in a place that guarantees it wide attention: the ninth edition of Economics, the classic college textbook by Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson...
...gourmet tour of Europe's better restaurants, including Lasserre in Paris, Hosteria de Orso in Rome and the Jockey Club in Madrid. "Travellers bring their own Alka-Seltzer," says the agent...
Unique activities and facilities of the Houses encompass a wide variety of fields, including workshops in photography, carpentry, and auto mechanics. Also there is a sparsely equipped weight room at South House, a Gourmet Society led by Mrs. Von Stade in her kitchen at Mather, jazz jams and auctions...