Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the ashes at the scene were a number of beer bottles and pie tins. The front tire of one of the tractors was flat and melted onto...
...actress Gloria Stuart, Thompson learned good cooking at home in Hollywood, where dinner guests included Groucho Marx and Robert Benchley. Traveling around Europe, cooking while in and out of love, she developed an eclectic repertoire: from Russian fish soup to French vegetable soup with white wine, from Southern "transparent pie" -- made with quince jelly -- to an opaque Dutch apple pudding. The icing on the cake is a foreword by the incomparable food writer M.F.K. Fisher, the author's godmother...
...What looks like a slice of - chocolate layer cake is really a reward for jogging those extra two miles in the morning. A towering wedge of vanilla-scented cheesecake, laden with calories, is no more than fair compensation for eating only salad or fish for lunch. And warm apple pie a la mode is not the obvious self-indulgence it once was, but a vital, midday energy booster for a deserving workaholic. Whatever the reasons (or sweet excuses), desserts are back in style with a vengeance, in restaurants and bakeries, even as diet-obsessed Americans vow to cut their calories...
...restaurants prepare their own desserts, which is a boon to suppliers like Just Desserts, the San Francisco bakery. In addition to running four retail shops, it services 550 restaurants. Its best sellers: chocolate sour- cream fudge cake, apple pie and carrot cake. In five years the business's butter consumption has jumped from 3,000 lbs. a week to 7,000, while its weekly flour order has doubled from...
...years. At the Culinary Arts Division of Johnson & Wales University in Providence, a two-year pastry program that began with 13 students in 1983 now has 208 who are learning to perfect such all-American favorites as cheesecake (the choice of one out of four restaurant dessert eaters), apple pie, fruit tarts and chocolate everything. "Making pastry requires creativity," says Arlene Chorney, an administrator at the school. "It's edible...