Word: meals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Embarrassed by world pressure, the politburo in Hanoi may have passed the word to go easier. At any rate, prisoners were allowed for the first time to exercise outdoors for 30 minutes, but behind bamboo screens so that they could not see each other; they got a third daily meal of bread and water, and a third blanket. They began to pass their days in boredom rather than fear. Milligan began to raise a family of spiders in his cell, and watched geckos "mate with each other and grow...
...that he was "going to see my boss." But Perón called himself only "a soldier of Cámpora" and added that "now it will be Mr. Cámpora who slices the salami." If so, it will be Mr. Perón who gets served the meal. The rendezvous in Rome was a confirmation of the bizarre victory by proxy that the 77-year-old Perón had engineered from Madrid after nearly two decades of exile...
Love Songs. The restaurant seats only 60. Bocuse, his wife and his daughter are apt to greet guests at the door. In the fireplace, chickens revolve on a spit. Individual dishes may be relatively simple, but Bocuse assembles a meal of awesome proportions and exquisite quality. TIME's Steven Englund recently sampled a luncheon that was spiced with Bocuse's commentary. It began with sausage in a brioche ("You really have to eat sausage when you come to Lyon") and continued with pâté de foie gras that had been made the same morning. Next came...
Before we left Hanoi, we were treated to a sumptuous banquet in a Soviet compound (compliments of the North Vietnamese government) that included classical French delicacies, Russian champagne and Vietnamese rice and orange wines. As the lights, which flickered on and off throughout the meal, continued to wink, we puffed on "Dien Bien Phu" cigarettes...
Commodity prices frequently fluctuate in reaction to arcane events. For example, one reason for the leap in soybeans is that schools of Peruvian anchovies for a while mysteriously disappeared from the Pacific. As hardly anyone but a commodity trader would guess, that removed from the market anchovy fish meal-the only product that competes effectively against soybean meal for animal-feed protein. Last winter, a Manhattan investor bought some orange-juice futures on the calculation that "all I need to make a profit is two hours of frost in Florida." It did not happen, and he lost...