Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quarter-horse, Sam. While some horses no doubt end up as dog food, the detective on the case suspects that the best of the rustled nags are sold for as much as 400 per lb. (large stallions bring $450), trucked to Canada, butchered and shipped to Europe. There, horse meat is welcomed by discriminating continental eaters, who consider it juicier, tastier and more tender than expensive beef. France has more than 1,000 boucheries hippophagiques (horse meat shops); some restaurants in Belgium and Switzerland specialize in horse meat. The taste for steak á la dobbin has not crossed the Channel...
...Last Cowboy for serialization in The New Yorker, sets Henry and Betsy Blanton in a determinist context of history, geography and economics. Her sympathetic sketches of modern cowboy life are framed by facts - about beef consumption (Americans ate 27 billion lbs. of it in one year), ranching technology, federal meat-grading standards and the quirks in Texas law. Cattlemen, for example, don't have to fence their animals in. Farmers who want to protect their crops have to fence cattle out. Kramer achieves the intended effect: to show the American cowboy riding off, not into a glowing sunset...
Byrd graduated at the top of his high school class of 30, but the Depression made college only a dream. It took him one year to find a job as a gas station attendant; then he switched to cutting meat in a shop closer to home for $12.50 a week. Byrd studied a butcher's manual, honing skills he had already picked up tending his family's hogs. He recalls the details: "I shot them, stabbed them, cut their throats, hung them up, cut them open, rolled out the insides, cleaned them...
...ordinary water, but none is ever dumped; it is all recycled through the spacecraft. "The most beautiful sight in orbit, or one of the most beautiful sights, is a urine dump at sunset," says Schweickart. "It's really spectacular." Well, as the French say, one man's meat is another man's poisson...
...world, it boasts a 9.7-acre roof, 9,000 tons of air conditioning, 32 escalators, ten elevators and 88 rest rooms. It has served more sit-down dinners in one place than any other caravansary in history: 65,000 meals in three days (Creole chicken, stuffed flounder and meat loaf) to the Lutheran Youth Gathering in August 1976. It has the world's largest roll-up rug, a 126,85 l-sq.-ft., zippered greensward of AstroTurf that the locals fondly call Mardi Grass. Also the biggest set of TV tubes: six superscreens, each 22 ft. wide...