Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Then, the second question I wanted to ask Mr. Pattakos is, here in the mountains of Northern Greece we are surrounded by sheep. The quality of both the wool and the meat seems excellent. Could you tell me what the present government is doing to improve the exports of these two commodities...
...delicious and delicate green concoction of julienne white meat turkey, sugar cured ham, Bermuda onions and hard-boiled egg slices, served with hot Johnny cakes...
...days before he was cashiered that Hickel became the first Secretary of the Interior to use the official Endangered Species List before-not after-a species was virtually extinct. By putting eight species of whales on the list, Hickel banned imports to the U.S. of nearly all whale products (meat for pet food, oil for cosmetics, shoe polish, margarine). "Hickel has chosen to make the list preventive rather than commemorative," said Roderick Cameron, head of the Environmental Defense Fund. Two days after Hickel was fired, the White House rescinded the order...
...marvelously eccentric manifesto, Olney writes: "My kitchen I love, but I would recommend it to no one else." Just as well, because he cooks mostly on an open hearth where roasts turn on a spit, meat and fish are grilled, and vegetables bake buried in the hot ashes. Furthermore, he adds, "from time to time I climb to the rooftop and suspend a marinated rolled boar's belly or other delicacy in the chimney to be smoked." He is not really a masochist. The reason for this laborious approach is that the techniques of French cooking were perfected with...
...another telephone call, informing him of the 1934 murder of Leningrad Party Chief Sergei Kirov by a Trotskyite dissident. It was that event that set the stage for one of the most terrifying eras of modern history: the Great Purges of the 1930s, or, as Khrushchev calls them, "the meat mincer." The NKVD, Stalin's secret police and precursor of today's KGB, suddenly became all-powerful, and thousands of party officials and army officers began to vanish. Khrushchev survived the grim era in willing ignorance. "I don't know where these people were sent," he says...