Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very eclectic eater," says Terry Johnston, as she nibbles her way through doll-size portions, of stuffed mushrooms, marinated beans, and potato salad with capers at the tapas restaurant in the Broadway department store in Glendale, Calif. "I've been to Spain," Johnston confides, "and this is a bit of nostalgia." For Don Kenway, the store's vice president for food services, offering tapas in a department-store setting is a gamble. He is pleased with the progress the small cafe has made since it opened in December. "It's an educational process," he says. "Some people confuse Spanish food...
...sides of dried salt codfish. Noise, music, tiles and fake Spanish paintings (a not- quite- Picasso Guernica here, a playful pseudo-Miro there) attract yuppies of all ages, who begin to line up at 6:30 every evening. Among the more delectable possibilities: red beans with snails, a layered potato omelet, white beans with clams, and deep-fried eggs. Usually on hand are steak with chili corn sauce, stuffed squid, eggplant and tomato combinations and even small portions of main-course dishes like paella. The tiny portions range in price from $1.50 to $5.50, and the check grows as drinking...
...became our mascot," said sectionmate Lisbeth Barron. "Anything that must have gone wrong Betsy must have done it." Added Jonathan Bower, "Betsy nosed out Mr. Potato Head for our affection." One student is rumored to have handed in a final exam with Spence's name...
Another place after the yuppie look is One Potato, Two Potato (1280 Mass Ave.), which recently reopened after a more than year-long absence. Drinks are moderately expensive here but there is good finger food. The atmosphere leaves something to be desired. Long time patrons of this bar point out that this one time cozy and homey place now looks like a gym for square dancing...
...test plants to overwhelm the natural variety. But the release into the environment of any genetically engineered microbes in those days required the nod of the National Institutes of Health recombinant-DNA committee,* which in 1983 approved the Berkeley scientists' proposal to conduct their test at a tiny potato patch near the city of Tulelake in Northern California...