Word: pita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pita's Paso Doble, a classical love story about factory workers involved in a menage-a-trois, takes the screen at 9 p.m. on Friday and 4 p.m. on Sunday. Then, Wasps Nest, which is a satirical glimpse at the life of nouveau riche sisters and their family antics, takes over Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday night at 7 p.m., as well...
...generous art, less timid, less parochial. Hispanic Americans do not have a pure Latin American art to offer. Expect bastard themes. Expect winking ironies, comic conclusions. For Hispanics live on this side of the border, where Kraft manufactures Mexican-style Velveeta, and where Jack in the Box serves Fajita Pita. Expect marriage. We will change America even as we will be changed. We will disappear with you into a new miscegenation...
...Lites chain of fast-food restaurants seemed like a surefire formula for success in the health-conscious '80s. Its menu was designed for the slender set, featuring such fare as vegetarian pita-bread sandwiches, diet cheeseburgers, frozen yogurt and light beer. The chain grew from one Atlanta outlet in 1981 to about 100 restaurants in 19 states last year. But now D'Lites may be down to its final few bites. Company President Jefferson McMahon, a former Arby's executive who was hired only last November to tighten up D'Lites' management, abruptly quit the top job last week...
...Allen wrote, "He freed mankind from the hot lunch. We owe him so much." Other countries dally with sandwiches--France with its croque-monsieur (a grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich), the Danes with their open-faced smorrebrod, which require knives and forks, the Greeks and Middle Easterners with their pita pockets full of lamb or falafel--but only in America has the sandwich been developed to its full potential...
Even as they learn about new cuisines, Americans are busy naturalizing foreign ingredients into native dishes: tofu, the cheeselike soybean curd, as the base for burgers and ice cream; tacos and pita as sandwich holders; chili oils and fruit sauces for barbecues. Surimi, a preserved-fish product developed in Japan a thousand years ago, has been reshaped for the American market to look like shrimp and crab legs. Tempeh, the Oriental fermented soybean cake, is here formed and flavored to simulate bacon and pastrami...