Word: potatoes
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...chocolates, huge pearl buttons," she says. While an editor at Mademoiselle in the early 1990s, Spade found little on the market that lived up to her mother's collection. So in 1993 Spade began sketching boxy totes in her Manhattan loft and buying burlap for her bags from a potato-sack manufacturer found in the Yellow Pages. "One [fabric supplier] said to me, 'Honey, you look like a nice girl,'" Spade recalls. "'You don't want to get into the business. Settle down.'" Instead, Spade rocketed into the fashion elite, as Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman began selling her nylon totes...
...crowd in attendance was utterly predictable. Out of the eight participants (not including FM photographer and ravenous meat-eater Andrew Brunner and me) five were vegetarians, and seven were women. Accordingly, a dish of butternut squash and potato gnocchi au gratin was served with the joking proviso, “Remember, this is not a dish for bikini weather.” The crowd tittered approvingly. Not that they had anything to fear—the portions served were so miniscule that I felt I was on a crash diet, not attending a course for which you had to stump...
...never believed previously that people were killed when they stole one potato to stay alive." Khieu Samphan, Cambodia's head of state during the Khmer Rouge regime, who became the first senior leader to admit to widespread killings from...
...fresh fish blood in the street don't stir your feelings of yuletide cheer, then chances are you're not Czech. For 'tis the season when the streets of Prague are filled with stands selling carp, a staple of the Bohemian holiday table, served breaded and fried with potato salad. Many folks buy their fish live and kill it at home. More squeamish celebrants have it gutted for them...
...menu boasts Carolina turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, squash, sweet-potato souffle, cranberry sauce, rolls, mulled cider and assorted pies—including pumpkin, of course...