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...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 any society in history...
Groaning Buffets. The Cuban welcome could hardly have been warmer. There were frozen daiquiris at the airport and buffets groaning with fresh lobster, shrimp, glazed red snapper and other delicacies that ordinary Cubans seldom see. Premier Fidel Castro himself showed up to chat, joke and sign autographs for the businessmen...
Opening day went off almost without a hitch. Of more than 100 foreign fishing boats sighted in U.S. coastal waters on March 1, only one was nabbed by the Coast Guard-for fishing in an area off New England where lobster pots had been set. (For serious offenses, a captain can be fined...
That's when I made my getaway. Up the stairs past the sleeping boneless chicken, past a bowl of goldfish knitting woolen sweaters, past a lobster wearing a bib that said "Kosher," and out into the yard, where I hid in six-foot tall blades of grass which were reading copies of Pravda. I made it to my car, but to my chagrin, it was being eaten--by the very dog whose invitation to whist I had foolishly declined earlier in the afternoon...
...George Viles and, until now, Clay Felker) to dine at a tony restaurant like Le Madrigal. Out-of-town visitors are taken for a Kong's-eye view of Manhattan and a feast at the top of the World Trade Center, and Rupert sometimes takes Anna for a quiet lobster dinner at The Palm restaurant. "I'm a bit dull and humorless, not the sort of person who makes social friends easily," Murdoch contends. "This sounds corny, but my best friend is my wife...