Word: mullet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flesh, fish, fowl and vegetables that can be encouraged to speak for themselves. Jean and Pierre Troisgros most elegantly practice the new cookery at their three-star restaurant in the Rhone Valley. In The Nouvelle Cuisine (Morrow; 254 pages; $12.95), the chers frères range easily from red mullet with beef marrow to that little-known marvel, coupe-jarret, which consists of five different meats (pork, veal, beef, lamb and chicken) cooked in one kettle...
...behind. On the Chinese mainland, Fan Li's descendants have dotted the countryside with so many fishpond cooperatives that their annual production of carp and related fish (1.5 million tons) nearly equals the total U.S. catch. The Israelis, who have extensive breeding pools, learned that by injecting mullets with pituitary hormones they could cause the fish to spawn in captivity. Ordinarily the mullet -a popular tropical food fish-will spawn only in open water. Similar projects are underway on Taiwan, in India and at Hawaii's privately run Oceanic Institute, where scientists have just made an esoteric contribution...