Word: mung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even in apartment closets equipped with growing lights and terrariums. While the average consumer was once largely limited to buying vegetables and fruits that are treated in gas chambers and plastic-packed to evade the curious nose and probing finger, farmers' markets and small vegetable stands are sprouting like mung beans ? which they also sell. In most big cities, there are at least a dozen cheese stores and several p?tisseries and charcuteries, where none existed a few years...
...wanders from the bar in search of nourishment. Next door is a restaurant; it is not until he examines the menu that he sees the words "health foods"-and by then it is a little late to run. On the shelves are strange labels: Granola, mung beans, Tiger's Milk, lecithin, all at nonsensical prices. Vitamin E, he learns, is expected to cure everything but the common cold; Vitamin C takes care of that. Adelle Davis has become the Brillat-Savarin of the counterculture. Her self-help books beckon from the paperback rack: Let's Get Well...