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...Mississippi to St. Louis, maybe. The soul, spirit and stomach of the World's Fair that started its six-month run in New Orleans a week ago is the city itself: brooding and flamboyant, raucous and urbane, devout and dissolute. The fair stirs together the razzmatazz of Mardi Gras, the harmony of New Orleans' elegant old buildings and the French-Spanish-African-Italian-Irish-German-Creole-Cajun gumbo gusto of its everyday, every-night street life. With a generous infusion of pavilions and exhibitions from the rest of the U.S. and 24 other nations, the Louisiana World Exposition...
Culture Club: Colour by Numbers (Virgin). Lead Singer Boy George may look like Peter Pan at a transvestite Mardi Gras, but this band purveys a straight and joyous brand...
Though relatively poor, France's sudouest is blessed with some of Europe's greatest culinary riches: the truffles of Périgord, Bayonne ham, Roquefort cheese, Armagnac, walnuts, chestnuts, wild mushrooms, vast amounts of poultry and pork. It is the principal home of foie gras and boasts more than 100 hot and cold dishes based on duck or goose liver, some accented with sauerkraut, seaweed, prunes and green grapes. Duck is to the southwest what steak is to Texas, observes Wolfert, whose 30 or so recipes for the bird range from duck sausage with green apples and chestnuts...
...escapist extravaganza outdazzling Mardi Gras...
...religious occasion for their pagan elders, and now it has been taken back by the grownups-masks, costumes, witches, jack-o'-lanterns and all. Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear. This year's celebration will be the most raucous ever, lasting four or five days in some places, a virtual Halloweek...