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...self-contained insularity of American life has been commented on endlessly, with its gated communities, mirror-tinted SUVs and Xbox-equipped "man caves" requiring zero participation in public life. But these ever narrowing areas of interest, however great they may be - and things like all-Latin fried-chicken chain Pollo Campero or Bacon of the Month Club are really, really great - point out that we are no longer a single nation. And when you lose that, you lose the foods that go with it, like the old standards of roast beef and twice-baked potatoes and lobsters served with melted...
...Pollo Loco • KFC is accused of grilling chicken with beef ingredients...
...national cuisine (to say nothing of their own creativity) and the wish to please a jury that tends to favor the classic French style is precisely the challenge. "If you're playing soccer, you can't use your hands," says Antonio Saura, a Spanish filmmaker whose 2007 documentary El Pollo, el Pez, y el Cangrejo Real featured the competition. "The Bocuse is the same way: you have to play by their rules...
Maybe it's just that Hispanic culture has washed over the U.S. so completely, but it seems as though Guatemala's Pollo Campero, which has stores in six states and D.C., really gets us. There's a stripped-down masculinity to its shops, a friendly bluntness. It has good fried chicken too--moist but not greasy. And the Grilled Chicken Bowl mocks KFC's gloppy layered Rice Bowl: Pollo's is a mixture of chicken, beans, rice, cilantro, onions and salsa fresca over red rice that is one of the best fast-food dishes I've ever had. The restaurant...
...good time to bail. His five years at the helm of the fifth largest European telecom company were disappointing, and the recent lopping off of the mobile unit was a complete U-turn after it had been fused with the fixed-line only two years ago, contends Michele Pollo, chairman of the economics department at Milan's Bocconi University. "It's hard to understand just what they have in mind, strategically," says Pollo. For now, Milanese lawyer Guido Rossi has stepped in as acting chairman. But with Tronchetti Provera still the controlling shareholder, the company must look hard...