Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultural differences. What is adorable in Pasadena might be pronounced delicious in Pyongyang. Whether a cat ends up in a lap or a wok is a matter of local custom. There are moments when Serpell seems to harbor a hidden vegetarian agenda. His descriptions of the insensitive technology of pig farming and "porcine stress syndrome" take the fun out of a ham sandwich. Yet In the Company of Animals is not intended to change our habits but to open our minds. Historians, psychologists, sociologists and Lady Beaverbrook may resent Serpell's romp through their territories. Both petted and petless readers...
...other words--with all due respect to the incredibly generous woman who allowed herself to be used as a human guinea pig for 114 days--so far, this cure has been proven to work only on an abnormal sample. The researchers explained that the reason they chose this hapless woman was that her unique biological clock made her body experience what is the middle of the night for most people in the early evening. This way, they could conduct their research in the afternoon rather than in the middle of the night...
...became an art critic for the New Statesman, then turned to the full-time writing of poetry, novels (G.), social criticism (Art and Revolution), films (La Salamandre), TV documentaries (Ways of Seeing). An unorthodox Marxist, he now lives in a village in the French Alps (about which he wrote Pig Earth), but he roams far. This collection of essays, his 17th book in a productive quarter- century, includes Berger's impressions of Moscow, New York City, Strasbourg and Istanbul...
...first in the country. The chef and co-owner, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, is a virtuoso of the meal-in- miniature. To the standard array of morsels, he adds innovations such as chicken in curry, headcheese in a satiny pimiento puree, slivers of crackling crisp roast pig and seviche of scallops. Rojas-Lombardi has his three tapas cooks prepare 25 choices each day, and his menu also lists eight or ten conventional main courses, both Spanish and Continental. "About 65% of our business is now tapas," says the chef, who offers them all day and evening, and for supper...
...spent a lifetime treating the ailments of cows, horses, sheep and pigs, yet here I am, in my twilight years, bringing out a volume of my dog stories." So begins James Herriot's wholly unnecessary apologia. The Yorkshire vet's style is unadorned, his message is affectionate, and his four- footed characters are irresistible. Here he has gathered 50 recollections of canines, some of them sentimental, a few tragic and at least one--the story of a terrier male who abruptly becomes attractive to other males--as odd as anything in the Decameron. Herriot recalls that in his student days...