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...Ayatullah's revolution that six years after the Shah's ouster, the average Iranian is no better off materially. And it would appear that the country has swapped one set of constraints on personal freedom for another. There is still abundant evidence of overcrowding and wretchedness. Two pounds of meat that cost just over a dollar in 1978 now costs $12 on the open market. Medical services have deteriorated, foreign travel is difficult...
Elsewhere around the country, boutique farms are producing game birds, ducks and free-range chickens (which are allowed to roam and forage for natural food to add flavor and improve texture). Fresh buffalo meat is now regularly supplied to chefs such as Jimmy Schmidt of the London Chop House in Detroit by American Spoon Foods in Petoskey, Mich. As Americans discover that wild mushrooms grow in their woods and ma-che, or lamb's-lettuce, in their fields, they are paying premium prices for such produce at places like the Irvine Ranch Farmers Market in Los Angeles and Balducci...
...industry's top dogs, McDonald's and Burger King, are also moving to expand their menus, though more cautiously. "Our menu is meat and potatoes. That's been the staple of the American diet for two centuries," says Ed Rensi, chief operations officer of McDonald's, which serves 6% of the American population every day. Yet McDonald's has given nonbeef eaters a break with its popular Chicken McNuggets, which have been widely imitated, and the company is testmarketing a prepackaged salad...
...regular customers are so thrilled with the new menu items, especially the suddenly chic salad bar. "I think it's ridiculous to serve anything green in a junk-food spot," says Johnny Weber, 17, a Burger King devotee in Berkeley. "Before long they'll be dividing the place into meat-eating and nonmeat-eating sections." Argues Louise Adams, a student at Philadelphia's Temple University, who sticks to Whoppers at her local Burger King: "You can always bake a potato or throw a salad together at home...
...kind of tattooed roustabouts who wander from job to job, now building dams in Iran, now forging roads through the Amazon. In Gabon, they live--some with families, some alone--in five camps near the work site. The bases have medical clinics, schools and swimming pools; fresh vegetables, meat and delicacies are flown...