Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important rituals of cocktail and dinner parties, where so much governmental business is conducted. After paying only $28 for a six-weeks' course, they learn how to navigate in high heels, how to make artistic canapes, and how to argue with the butcher for a good cut of meat. Some students are fascinated with mixing food and drink, put together duodenum-rending concoctions. One teacher spent half an hour dissuading a determined student from combining sausages and fruit salad as a main course. Students even conquer the art of small talk, are taught to stifle the impulse...
...urgency in Che Guevara's pleas for coexistence reflected Cuba's increasing economic troubles. With something less than his usual cockiness. Fidel Castro announced last week that he was imposing meat rationing on the fertile "Pearl of the Antilles." All housewives must register with neighborhood butchers, who will assign them numbers. When meat arrives, the butcher is supposed to post, by turn, the numbers of housewives who may buy one-half pound per family member. The butchers do not know how often they will get deliveries from the government; the housewives do not know when-or if-their...
...Meat is only the latest of scarcities under Castro. One by one, the abundant supplies of fish, pork, vegetables, rice, wheat, eggs, such consumer staples as razor blades, toilet paper and soap have disappeared from the shelves. Last month, to fight black-marketing, the government ordered that 15 articles-among them toothpaste, thread, and nursing nipples-would be sold henceforth only in government-designated stores. But what Castro cannot do by fiat is to end his own mismanagement, which has crippled Cuba's economy, or to overcome the stiff U.S. trade embargo, which makes matters very much worse...
...Much Left? The meat shortage is a good example of Castro's reckless ways and the later reckoning. Seizing the great cattle ranches of Camaguey province, the "Texas of Cuba," Castro's men slaughtered breeding cattle by the thousands to show Cubans what a good life the revolution had brought. Before long, the herds were decimated. Fortnight ago, Castro ordered a count to see how many cattle were left, and last week called a national conference to ponder "production deficiencies...
...such short supply that it no longer is readily available; butter is distributed at the rate of a half-pound per person every ten days; beef is a rare luxury. To push a substitute. Ulbricht's regime in 1959 introduced "pony bars," restaurants that sell nothing but horse meat and urge customers to try "stallion steak," "foal filet," "goulash from the harness...