Word: plates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening the gates and letting people in are over. We've had to get into the merchandising business." As in the majors, the minor-league clubs started ball, hat, bat and sweatband nights. Then the farm teams added a few gimmicks all their own. Several clubs offer home-plate weddings to their fans. Anyone attending a Birmingham Barons game can order a birthday cake brought to his seat and watch his name being flashed on the electronic scoreboard. The El Paso Diablos give away used cars -- after shooting off smoke bombs inside them. At a recent Buffalo Bisons game...
This same pseudocheese is the primary ingredient of the Cheese Fries. Rather than served in the traditional manner--on a plate and smothered in a cheese sauce--the fries were packed into a paper bag, with the cheese globs troweled in on top. This method results not only in unattractive presentation, but also in messy fingers and poor distribution of cheese--the bottom fries are ignored. However, the fries themselves are among the best in the Square, cut thick, long and with the skin still on. And wonderfully greasy. This food is not for the faint of heart--or artery...
...veal chops with morels. Not to be missed: profiteroles filled with foie gras. The kitchen also serves an original version of pot-au-feu for which the succulently moist, tarragon- scented chicken arrives with leeks and angel-hair pasta, not in the traditional bowl with soup but on a plate mantled with a cream-and-chicken- stock sauce...
...grown up on this side of the border, in the land of Elvis Presley and Thomas Edison. Our lives are prescribed by the mall, by the 7-Eleven, by the Internal Revenue Service. Our imaginations vacillate between an Edenic Latin America, which nevertheless betrayed our parents, and the repellent plate-glass doors of a real American city, which has been good...
...American Century, two alternative cultures beckon the American imagination: the Asian and the Latin American. Both are highly communal cultures, in contrast to the literalness of American culture. Americans devour what they might otherwise fear to become. Sushi will make them lean, subtle corporate warriors. Combination Plate No. 3, smothered in mestizo gravy, will burn a hole in their hearts...