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Both Ali and Raza President Lilia Fernandez '94would like the content of the Core to change byincluding more classes on "non-European" subjectmatter...
Miller's passion for untamed flavor began in his native Massachusetts, where Mexican and Indian friends of his French-Canadian family introduced him to the spicy exotica of non-European cooking. Travels in Latin America, Africa and Asia prompted him to experiment with ethnic accents, first as an assistant chef for nouvelle California guru Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley and later in the same city at his own Fourth Street Grill, where he was one of the first chefs in the country to use mesquite wood for grilling...
This hankering after the excitement offered by non-European dishes amounts to something like a kitchen rebellion, says journalist Amal Naj, whose book, Peppers: A Story of Hot Pursuits, has just gone into its second printing. "Americans are discovering that food doesn't have to be so passive," he remarks. "It can be an active experience like riding a roller coaster, or a good game of squash, or taking a stroll on a beautiful evening and experiencing the breeze. It does something to your entire system...
...gave Americans only a kind of abstract triumph -- and left a void. The collapse of communism and the Soviet empire suddenly removed the dark moral counterweight by which Americans measured their own virtue. Chronic recession, the rise of Japanese and European economic competitors, the vast inflow of immigrants from non-European sources (strangers to the older American tradition), the shrinking of the buffering Atlantic and Pacific oceans (jet travel, satellites, global distribution of goods), all these have eaten away at the long American smugness, the postwar sense of superiority, of grace...
...mere partisan struggle. It is part of the nation's effort to assimilate -- in the deepest sense, to domesticate, to understand, to control -- changes in American society over the past two generations: to deal with the consequences of sexual revolution, of women's liberation, of huge multicultural immigration from non-European sources, with the devastation caused by the drug trade, with the loss of America's long absolute postwar pre-eminence, with the fragmentation of the family. It is even a reflection of the baby boom generation's coming of age, having families and changing their moral perspective from individual...