Word: pork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a fairly large selection of both hot and cold tapas, ranging in price from a mere $1 to $5. Few of the more interesting ones are completely vegetarian; many contain cheese or seafood as well as meat. The table tried four: a special of pork tenderloin on a bed of white beans, garbanzos, and sauted mushrooms; scallops and squid with a puff pastry shell in squid-ink sauce; baby octopus vinaigrette and an enlightened burrito filled with shrimp, lobster, and spinach in red pepper sauce...
...first two were terrific: rosemary encrusted chunks of pork were complemented perfectly by the succulent mush-rooms and beans, and the tiny scallops and shrimps in squid ink were fresh and perfectly cooked. The pastry on top was fluffy and tasted vaguely sweet, like vanilla. In both cases, the sauce adhered so perfectly to the meal that the plates looked clean enough to be reused. The baby octopus was tender, but needed more fresh tomato and onion chunks to liven it up, as well as a bit more red wine vinegar for tang. The canelon, as the fourth tapa...
...lining up to sue. The nation's second food-disparagement suit, also to be tried in Amarillo, pits emu farmers against the Honda car company. The farmers say the emu was slammed by a commercial featuring a hucksterish emu rancher who promotes the ostrich-like bird as "the pork of the future." The ad never calls emu meat unsafe, but Fort Worth attorney John Scott says its portrayal of the birds as disreputable has dealt his clients a hard blow. In these litigious times, insult an ugly, flightless, 6-ft.-tall bird, and you may have to answer for yourself...
...Pork and the Fast Track How bad did the Clinton administration want fast-track trade legislation? Maybe enough to build a Los Angeles freeway...
...m.p.g. and weighs 40% less than a Taurus. Ford promised to adapt its Windstar minivan, classified as a truck, to meet lower emissions by 1999. But while the Big Three talk about adding a salad bar to the auto buffet, they are busily cooking up the industry equivalent of pork sandwiches. "Look, we can make a car that runs on rubber bands and squirrels on treadmills," sighs Chrysler vice chairman Robert Lutz, "but that's not what people want...