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...Arab Republic serves falafel (50?), a bean feast that tastes like a spicy meat sandwich. Morocco serves mint tea and pastry ($1) in carpeted tents. Try the Belgian Village's crepe-suzette shop where a Grand Marniered pancake costs 75?, or India's chicken pakora and clay-oven-baked bread (45?) served on the lawn by a turbaned chef. International Plaza, a noisy cluster of small shops and food stands, offers a culinary Cook's Tour that takes only a few steps. Colombian tacos (75?) can be washed down with Philippine beer (70?), Ecuadorian banana dogs...
They sing about Paper Mate's de-pen-pendible pen, they do the Pillsbury suite ("Nothin' says lovin' like something from the oven"), and Jamie's is the voice of the animated Aero-Shave mermaid. They do Northwest Orient's Oriental airlines song, A.T. & T.'s longdistance elegy, and Alka-Seltzer's bel canto promise: "Relief is just a swallow away." One of their super-specialties is, "Look for the spear and get chewing enjoyment...
...rehearsal too. For dishes that take time, she cooks to various stages beforehand, so that she can compress an entire process of, say, four hours, into 30 minutes. By the end of a show about the preparation of one duck, for example, there will be a duck in the oven, another freshly stuffed on the counter, a stand-by duck in the ice box, and perhaps a misfired duck on the floor...
Roman commuters half expect bus drivers to walk out in the middle of the run, and a housewife never knows when she pops a pasta into the oven whether the gas workers will keep the pressure up until it is baked. The agitation for more pay is intense in Italy because wages are lower there than in most of Europe, but European workers in general are demanding increases at a rate that is bringing them slowly but inexorably toward the U.S. scale...
...thus saving the importer the $1 a dress he would otherwise have to pay for pressing. Every morning, 6,000 Ibs. of Denver steaks are jet-flown to Phoenix, 20,000 Ibs. of Hawaiian papaya fly to West Coast markets, and a Manhattan shop, Cheese Unlimited, puts on sale oven-fresh brioches and croissants jet-lifted in from Paris...