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...European Community is a long chronicle of pots calling kettles black. Each side regularly accuses the other of protectionist practices. Occasionally, the verbal sniping erupts into action. Over the years, limited trade wars have been waged over such items as beef, chickens, citrus products, soybeans and even pasta. The set- piece battles may have rattled the media but did no lasting damage to the landscape...
Some chefs go to extraordinary lengths to ensure the purity of their offerings. Luma boils its pasta in filtered water. Santa Fe's Coyote Cafe serves goat cheese made from the milk of animals that eat only organic feed. Bernard Leroy, owner of Bernard, a French restaurant in New York City, even insists on using organic bay leaves to spice sauces. But the Paris-born chef is willing to compromise on sweets. "We can't go without chocolate cake or souffles, and organic chocolate doesn't exist," he says. "There are just so many desserts we can make from nuts...
...Lent season, so I can't eat meat," says Voci, her crystal earrings glinting in the flourescent light. "I had pasta. He had meat. Being Italian, I had pasta...
Most Ubiquitous Edible. There are at least 425 shapes and sizes of pasta -- round, square, tubular, flat -- and Americans seemingly craved them all. In the '80s the nation gorged on this basic yet incredibly varied Italian staple. Last year domestic consumption of pasta, from agnolotti to ziti, topped 4 billion lbs. -- nearly 18 lbs. for every man, woman and bambino...
...shows? What breakthroughs in technology, design or food transformed people's living habits? And who were the celebrities who dominated and defined the era? Thirteen pages of selections from all that was notable in the past ten years, from the '84 Olympics to The Bonfire of the Vanities, from pasta to the fax machine. Nor was every prominent event or personality praiseworthy, by any % means. The Hitler diaries, Ollie North and Pete Rose were part...