Word: pies
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...author covers scores of local cuisines and the locals who make them: "In Greensboro they were talking rice and gravy but I didn't know it because in the Carolinas nobody calls rice 'rice.' Down in Charleston they call it 'perlew' and up in Greensboro they call it 'pie-low' and cook books spell it 'pilau,' to mean 'rice pilaf.' " In Wisconsin, she finds that orange whitefish roe is dyed black and processed into caviar primarily for the Japanese market. She gives us a glimpse of Indian salmon ceremonies in the Northwest that include a song beginning "Thank you Swimmer...
...loyal readers who suspect the Sterns of going straight, a few pie-in- the-face recipes are thrown in, including seafoam lime Jell-O mold with marshmallows and Mary Bobo's carrot casserole, a concoction made with Ritz crackers and melted cheese. It should be noted that the Sterns and Fussell give quite different recipes for New Orleans red beans and rice, yet both are credited to Buster Holmes, operator of the famous French Quarter greasy spoon. Quite possibly the old master cook never makes that dish the same way twice, which is why there probably cannot...
John P. Reardon Jr. '60, Harvard's athletic director, says the decision to push the Ivy League teams into Division I-AA reflects a desire by NCAA to cut down "the number of teams getting a piece of the TV revenue pie...
...followers. Their relations with this place, or more properly their invention of it, gave modernism its one practical utopia of the senses, a bourgeois Eden whose roots wound back through a coastal peasant culture (still unhurt by tourism in the 1920s) to the Greco-Roman past. Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes on the table, bringing their sensuous embodiment to an extraordinary pitch of imaginative precision in which mere fantasy had no role...
...performance of the independent stations that carry us." Rivers, who roused Carson's ire last spring when she left for the competition without telling him first, is also sounding a conciliatory note: "My people will watch me; Johnny's people will watch him . . . We can all make it; the pie just has to be cut a little smaller." How many pieces the pie can accommodate remains to be seen. Cavett, who is returning to ABC after sojourns on PBS and cable, observes that it is "kind of silly" to have so many talk shows. "We could all just have them...