Word: loafed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still shakily insecure after the crash of '87, food trendies this year looked for safer culinary havens. They snuggled up to take-out food in the barefoot safety of their own living rooms, or sought out comfort foods (pasta and pizza, meat loaf with mashed potatoes and gravy, creamy desserts) in small, moderately priced Italian trattorias and American bistros. Many of them shunned the lavishly styled and priced restaurants, which in general took an almost unprecedented beating. The beef industry fought back even while the promise of immortality via good health made a superstar of cholesterol- reducing oat bran...
...threatened to deprive Cambridge residents and Harvard students of the city's only kosher restaurant. By thus rescuing Mavens, we are able to serve kosher food to the vast majority of Jews who will eat in a restaurant kosher in every respect but which operates on Sabbath. Half a loaf is surely better than none...
...than once a ! month last year, according to Restaurants & Institutions magazine, up from 17% the year before. But the boom is not confined to eating out. Supermarket bakery sales were up 21% in 1986 and '87. And bakeries are bursting with business. "Desserts in restaurants are only half the loaf," affirms Elliott Medrich, co-owner of Cocolat, a San Francisco Bay-area chocolate shop renowned for its truffles. "The real dessert action is in the high end of take-away- food places or for people cooking at home...
...find Bright Lights, Big City to be a profound picture--which it can be for some--it is never boring and always entertaining. The only scene that I completely hated was the last one, which is equally despicable in the novel. Rather than involving cocaine, it involves a loaf of bread. And while it is one of the few scenes without drugs, it is completely dopey...
...Harvard wins the first game of a two-game series, the victory represents always only "half a loaf...