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...microwave oven is not to blame: it is not machines that kill taste but the people who use them. What is destroying American cuisine is the growing fetish for cooking entire dinners during the commercial breaks on Wheel of Fortune and Family Feud. "Unlike in Europe, where someone might savor the experience of food," says Joel Weiner, the former executive vice president of Kraft, "Americans have gone the other way in a rapid-fire, lowest-common- denominator world...
...market researcher Faith Popcorn's bold prediction that "there aren't going to be stoves very soon." Others forecast that by 1995 half of all American kitchens will play home on the range with two microwaves. A Wall Street Journal survey found that 75% of Americans believe the microwave oven has made "life a lot better." Consumer demand is so keen that the food industry is racing to catch the microwave. Packaged products primarily designed to be hyperheated in these kitchen reactors have exploded into a more than $2 billion-a-year industry. To distinguish old-line cooking from microwave...
...well indeed. Roger Berkowitz, co-owner of the highly regarded Legal Sea Foods restaurants in the Boston area, has become a convert to microwaving shrimp and lobsters at home, though he warns that "you have about ten seconds to leave the room, or you see their claws hit the oven window." Both microwave-oven size and New England tradition militate against applying this technique in his restaurants. As Berkowitz puts it, "How do you tell someone, 'I just nuked your lobster...
...Communist world are already well identified, the recipe lifted from a Western cookbook for democracy. Separate Party from State. Add opposition parties and free elections to State. Briskly mix in press, speech and travel freedoms. Top with rights to assemble, strike and form labor unions. Bake in oven turned to Free Enterprise setting. Then hope that the inevitable spillover of chaos -- including the inevitable hard economic times -- doesn't cause the Democracy Souffle to fall...
...test my source's reliability, I asked him to repeat the "potato catechism." He lowered his voice and began, "O'Brien, lyonnaise, new potatoes, oven-broiled, mashed, skincredibles and home fries. Then back to O'Brien...