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...Getting paid to do what you like is almost always fun," says TIME Food Critic Mimi Sheraton. "And what I like to do most is eat. I'm especially crazy about restaurants because there is always an element of excitement about a meal: What will happen, how is it going...
...Maud in Washington, where Owner-Chef Bob Green beguiles illustrious visitors like Sandra Day O'Connor with fresh pickled trout Hemingway; New England baked stuffed clams; Philadelphia submarines; winter cabbage leaf stuffed with sausage, rice and cashew nuts; and mocha butter crunch pie. One favorite here is the $5 meal consisting of peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, all the milk you can drink and half a dozen Toll House cookies. Notes Green: "To be really authentic we even have Marshmallow Fluff for those who want it." Similarly, there is a Southwest-Mexican down-home culinary representation at the slick, glittering...
What they seem to want, more than anything, is to get out of the house for dinner. Nothing is more American today than avoiding a home-cooked meal. According to figures compiled by the National Restaurant Association, the average family spent 39.5% of its food dollar on restaurants in 1983, up from 33.1% in 1970. The typical American now eats out 3.7 times a week. From the trendy bistros of Manhattan's East Side to the ubiquitous "franchise row" that lines the main drag on the outskirts of Anytown, U.S.A., eating...
...computers. "I'm about 75% boring," he estimates. Nonetheless, when he is home for dinner with Wife Pat and Son Christopher, 33, talk frequently turns to smart keys and modems. Says Buckley: "My wife has asked me if, some time before she dies, we couldn't have a meal where the topic of conversation is not computers." --By Jamie Murphy
...scientific research, which conservation groups regard as little more than backdoor commercial whaling. But whale meat went from a cheap staple to an expensive delicacy. Ports like Ayukawa hollowed out. You can still find whale in restaurants here, but it's not locally caught?and at $55 for a meal of minke, it's far too costly for most residents in the depressed town...