Word: menus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...River will be spartan, but 60 cooks in the mess hall will see that none of the competitors go hungry. Each athlete is apportioned 6,000 calories a day of such dishes as Macaroni Bordelais and Ham Steak Hawaii; officials are rationed to 3,000-calorie menus. The following guide, based on reports from TIME correspondents, limns the essentials of each sport and spotlights some top competitors. Events are run under the metric system: a meter is slightly more than 3 ft.; a kilometer (1,000 meters) is slightly more than six-tenths of a mile. Capsules of what...
While other experts warned of eventual worldwide shortages, Gibbons found wild foods in abundance everywhere. (In a vacant lot in Chicago, he noted 15 different varieties.) In later books like Stalking the Good Life (1971), Gibbons outlined organic menus but warned in an interview that the novice forager should shun mushrooms and "start with raccoon pie and cattail salad. They never hurt anyone...
...snapper, he landed a three-month contract to sell the school system 40,000 Ibs. Says Orleans Parish Food Buyer Jeanne Elliott: "It's about as popular as spaghetti and meat sauce or veal parmigiana," adding, "Of course, we just call shark 'seafood' on the menus." Battistella is also successfully selling frozen shark fillets (at $1.32 per lb.) in New Orleans supermarkets, and reports that a food processor is testing a shark sandwich spread...
IRAN: Oil revenues have fallen from $20 billion last year to $16 billion in 1975, forcing the government to cut spending on roads, urban and rural development programs and other projects. Gray royal caviar has disappeared from the menus of some ministry luncheons, and the guest lists at glittering state dinners have been cut in half. But the military remains untouched; it received $11.8 billion this year, and recently bought 80 U.S. F-14 fighters...
...Wednesday, 9 p.m. E.D.T.) has George Peppard as Ben Casey redivivus-another resident neurosurgeon who sprinkles ground-up interns on his crunchy granola for breakfast, gnaws on the leg of a hospital administrator at lunch and fries incompetent colleagues for dinner. Hospital-show scripts are as predictable as hospital menus-and bear precisely the same relationship to real drama as institutional food does to haute cuisine...