Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to criticism, the sub-committee has revised its guidelines for the ways in which fasts should be conducted. The new guidelines stress the need to provide some activity, such as a movie during the meal time, to raise people's consciousness about world hunger, Graham Gardner '79, a subcommittee member, said yesterday...
Students often complain that Harvard professors are harder to find than a good dining hall meal. "Some people just use the University as a post office to pick up their mail," said Richard E. Caves, Stone Professor of International Trade. "A university is a rather remarkable place. You hire professors and only a small percentage of work is prescribed.... I've always thought that's a funny way to run a railroad...
...Lions' Heads; lacking lionburger, they consist of leonine pork meatballs in a gingery sauce. Some dishes, such as egg fu yung and fried rice, are familiar to Americans, since at least 90% of all Chinese food served in the U.S. is based on Cantonese recipes. But the real meal in China - Peking duck, for example - could not be mistaken for one in Chinatown, U.S.A. Almost all Cantonese dishes are steamed or stir-fried. Texture and flavor are not masked by heavy sauces that elsewhere can disguise unfresh ingredients. In Canton, they say, the shrimp come wiggling to the table...
...Soochow Hotel, the masterpiece of the meal is Beggar's Chicken, fit for a millionaire. The bird is wrapped in lotus leaves, encased in clay and baked for four hours. The very special guest is allowed to break open the potterized poultry with a golden hammer. In Kweilin's Li River Hotel, the aesthetic highlight is a bowl of bouillon on which float three yellow-eyed ducklings made of egg white. The culinary triumph is a sweet-and-sour fresh-water mandarin fish, confected with ham, onion, potato, sausage, mushroom and ginger. It is sculptured to resemble...
Amazingly, by 6:30 a.m. the overtoasted F.F.s are out of their hotel rooms and banging spoons for breakfast. (They dutifully use chopsticks for every other meal.) After such curiosa as fish-flavored omelette and jasmine tea cakes, washed down with surprisingly good coffee, the Westerners stand meekly, punctually, hi line to See China. What they get to see ranges from astounding to zilch...