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Gourmets of moderate means often scrimp on basic foods like breakfast cereals so that they can splurge on exotica. Jamail's, the premier gourmet store in Houston, offers this kind of shopper a spectrum of choices from Van Camp's pork and beans to shark meat pâté. Moreover, epicurean dining need not be exorbitant. Fine Italian pasta at $2.10 per lb. makes a cheaper meal than American beef tenderloin at about $4 per lb. Says Frank Cloudt, who owns a gourmet grocery in Atlanta: "People would rather have an exquisite beef stew than a mediocre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fat Times for Fancy Foods | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...brothers did beat the Mexicans, they were justified in doing so, for the region has long been plagued with burglaries committed by aliens. "Many ranchers feel they get burglarized all the time, and they feel it's about time someone did something about it," observes Milton Jamail, a University of Arizona researcher. Patrick Hanigan's trailer home had indeed been robbed a month before the alleged tortures took place. Others argue that the Hanigans, guilty or not, have suffered enough. The Hanigan home for example, has been peppered by rifle shots. "It's water under the bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Torture Trial in Tucson | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...Seattle, Truffles sells (besides fresh truffles at $12.81 per oz.) 60 different marmalades, 32 pastas, honey from 45 countries, 750 wines and a highly prized condiment known as Arizona champagne mustard sauce (used with meat and fish and as a glaze for ham). Houston's Jim Jamail & Sons imports such esoterica as Maine cacklebird, Indian quail and Finnish grouse?and recently filled a client's request for 48 Ibs. of African elephant meat (which was cut into steaks and broiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love in the Kitchen | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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