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They complain about small servings, "illegal combinations," and the long lines for mediocre quality food. They complain about missing lunch or dinner hours for classes or other commitments. They complain that the 12 houses and Union all offer the same food each day and that the menus lack variety...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: How Do Harvard's Meals Stack Up? | 3/14/1990 | See Source »

...most part, I think the menus reflect what the students want," says Hennessey. "I don't think the students are aware about how much we really do care. We're here to provide a service...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: How Do Harvard's Meals Stack Up? | 3/14/1990 | See Source »

...Ersatz Ascendancy. From Japan came salty, rubbery surimi, a processed fish paste that appeared on countless menus under the guise of lobster and crab legs. In the interest of dietary moderation, Americans during the '80s consumed an astonishing variety of re-engineered foods and beverages, including low-cal salad dressings and lite mayonnaise, diet yogurts and calorie-skimping frozen dinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Most of the Decade | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

Most Popular Entertainment. For a time it seemed that dining out had supplanted baseball or moviegoing as the all-American pastime. Trendy, self- styled trattorias and bistros, with provocative menus and often with fanciful decorative themes devised by hip designers, became a form of impromptu theater for tuned-in young foodies and grazers. Two years ago, some of the diners-out began to drop out, abandoning the scene to turn into couch potatoes. But their need for instant, easy sustenance fostered another trend: take-out food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Most of the Decade | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...since a women's magazine called Godey's Lady's Book began championing the cause of an annual day of Thanksgiving, the topic has been drowning in a syrupy sea of treacle. Almost every Thanksgiving cliche was in place by the mid-19th century: snow-thatched New England farmhouses, menus of turkey and cranberry sauce, families bowing their heads in grateful prayer, and wayward children dramatically returning home for the occasion. Even Abraham Lincoln in ushering in the modern national Thanksgiving holiday could not rise above what a latter-day President might call "the banality mode." Just weeks before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why We've Failed to Ruin Thanksgiving | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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