Word: pilaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have more than doubled since 1954, last year passed the $100 million mark. Charlie Mortimer put General Foods into the field in 1957 for prestige purposes, now puts out 60 gourmet items from green turtle soup with Madeira wine to Rock Cornish game hen stuffed with wheat pilaf and roasted in savory sauce...
Tired but thrilled, Bernstein wanted to spend a night in Turkey listening to the folk music he finds "deep, rich, untouched." But he had played so long himself that no cabaret was still open, and he settled for a Turkish meal of goat cheese, pilaf and kuzu firin (roast lamb). Too soon, it was time to head for the airport and a performance in Salonika, Greece. Among the concerts still ahead on the Philharmonic's world tour: 18 in Russia, five in Poland and Yugoslavia. By the time it returns in October, the Philharmonic will have seen ten weeks...
...Carpet. In Soviet Asia, it was Nehru's turn to score. At a shishkebab and pilaf supper in Tashkent he found that the people, despite 40 years of complete isolation from the rest of Asia, "still had Asian consciousness." They greeted him with cries of "Salaam aleikum" (may peace be upon you), and in Samarkand the en tire population came out into the streets chanting community songs. Telegrams be gan to pour in from Russian citizens asking permission to name their sons Jawaharlal or their daughters Indira (after Nehru's daughter...
Dagger Dance. The Aragvi is named after a famous swift river in Soviet Georgia, and its cuisine is Georgian and Caucasian. Specialties: shashlyk (broiled spitted lamb), pilaf (a condiment-hot concoction of lamb and rice) and satsivi (white meat of turkey in Georgian nut sauce, served cold...