Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scrutinizing Latin American forests, Plotkin and schultes have found over 1000 plants that can be used as foods, drugs or industrial materials. Medical uses range from contraceptives to cures for skin infection, and one edible plant is apparently "as good a source of protein as meat and better than say beans," the researchers...
...share of total Soviet investment-far higher than the figure for any other industrial country-agriculture has become such a fiasco that the embarrassed Soviets have ceased publishing figures on grain production. During Brezhnev's final years of rule, the country was bedeviled by acute shortages of meat, butter and cheese. Of course, Brezhnev cannot be blamed for the Soviet Union's periodic bouts of bad weather. But other problems plaguing the country's farms proved endemic under his rule: poor distribution, widespread mismanagement, inefficiency and waste, and a woeful lack of incentives for collective farmers...
...grain is piling up not only because farmers are so productive but also because of changes in eating habits. In the U.S., cattle and hog producers are buying less feed grain because the recession has reduced meat sales and consumers are switching to cheaper poultry and other substitutes. What is hurting U.S. farmers most, however, is a drop in overseas sales, which in the past decade have become vitally important. Foreign buyers now take one-third of all U.S.-grown corn, one-half of its soybeans and two-thirds of its wheat. But demand is lagging in the face...
...menus, both aristocratic and earthy, exude all the warmth and good humor of la cucina Italiana at its best. For the primo piatto, traditionally pasta or a rice dish or soup, recipes go from the outrageously calorific, like a macaroni concoction with both cream and meat sauces, to simple ricotta croquettes (the ricotta in Rome is made from sheep's milk). To shock the neighbors, there is a fashion able pasta with vodka and red-pepper flakes...
...banal red light plays over them; in the middle is a table, perhaps a sacrificial altar, and the whole cave is strewn with what seem to be mummified joints of meat. These are not identifiably human; if anything, they resemble small legs of lamb. But they suggest the dread cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus in the Odyssey, strewn with fragments of unspeakable meals. The title is The Destruction of the Father...