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...graduate and best-selling author of a travel guide series called "The Acccidental Tourist." Tyler's wonderful irony describes how, in spite of the successful career he has built living out of hotels, Macon hates travel, especially to anywhere foreign. A true American tourist, he distrusts the exotic. Hungarian paprika makes him sneeze; his taste consistently tends toward American which, to his xenophobic mind, means the assurance of safety, the familiar: home...
...empty shelves may be common in many other parts of Eastern Europe, but the shop windows of Budapest display everything from stylish eyeglass frames and fur coats to swimming rafts and potted cactus plants. The main market near Váci Street is a colorful cornucopia of scarlet paprika garlands, pigs' heads on hooks, mounds of emerald melons and fish tanks teeming with carp...
...bite sandwich for seven francs (about $1) that is stuffed with such fillings as goose liver pâté or tomato and Gruyère cheese. For a little more than $3, patrons can partake of "eggplant caviar" in an avocado boat or hearts of palm peppered with paprika. While the $6 to $9 bill for a full meal may be more than at a Burger King in Paris, the price beats the $75 average at Maxim's. Diners can have orders bundled for carry-out or they can sit on stools at small wooden tables overlooked...
...plane fares and chocolate. Last July Soviet cars jumped 18% and carpets and restaurant meals rose 50%. Czechoslovakia lifted its rate for children's clothing, fuel, postage and rents, while Hungary raised the price of bread, flour, sugar and some meats by up to 50%. The quintessential Hungarian paprika rose...
...lobsters eagerly snapped up dinner with their claws -"sometimes just like hungry dogs," says Conklin. But the artificial diet, alas, produced almost snow-white lobsters (unlike the motley-colored beasts in nature). For anyone who thinks this might be objectionable, Conklin's advice: add a dash of paprika or some other natural coloring to the feed. That should turn them into redbacks even before they are cooked...