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...addition to local produce, some of the trademark foods are goat cheese, blue cornmeal, wild mushrooms and game. American wines from a number of states are featured. The preferred fuel for grilling is mesquite, a wood native to the Southwest. Indeed, that part of the country, along with Louisiana and the Carolinas, provides much of the inspiration for dishes that are usually modified with Oriental, French and Italian overtones, all in the best melting-pot tradition...
...With affluence, your palate becomes very important to you," observes Jonathan Waxman, the chef who brought California cooking to New York in his popular though wildly expensive restaurant, Jams. Chefs sought by such traveling gastronomes are likely to include Alice Waters (Chez Panisse, Berkeley), Paul Prudhomme (K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, New Orleans), Larry Forgione (An American Place and the new Morgans Bar, New York), Richard Irving (the Ivy, Los Angeles) and Jeremiah Tower (Stars, San Francisco, and Santa Fe Bar & Grill, Berkeley...
Down-home fare is already the subject of several timely cookbooks, including Miss Mary's Down-Home Cooking by Diana Dalsass (New American Library), Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen (Morrow) and Joan Nathan's An American Folklife Cookbook (Schocken). The most impassioned paean to Momma cooking is Jane and Michael Stern's Square Meals (Knopf). In their march down memory lane, the authors celebrate dishes from what many people rightfully consider the Dark Ages of American eating: tuna casseroles sauced with canned mushroom soup, Back-to-Bataan Spam and patently disgusting creations like a cabbage-apple-and-pickle salad with evaporated...
After Faust won his first college game against Louisiana State University, Notre Dame was instantly installed as the No. 1 team in the country. Athletic Director Gene Corrigan recalls "people seriously wondering if we would ever lose again." But against Michigan the following week the contrasts between high school and college football began to show, and soon Faust was found wanting even in the Pat O'Brien department. Once, in a burst of madness, an alumnus sprang onto the field at half time. The Irish were leading Michigan State by the unsatisfactory score of 11-0. "You're going...
Implementing a 65% rule nationwide, Byrne claims, could inject $14 billion into classrooms without raising taxes. He has channeled $250,000 into his group, First Class Education, which scored a victory this month when Louisiana passed a 65% bill (increasing budget share from 60.3%). Similar measures are on the ballot in Arizona (which spends 58.6%) and before the legislature in Minnesota (current average: 62.1%), where G.O.P. Governor Tim Pawlenty hailed the proposal as "a commonsense idea that will help ensure better accountability in our schools...