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...large pile of the newest cookbooks for the past several months, full of wonder at the variety and sophistication of modern American cookery. That is all the more remarkable because only a decade or so ago, most of the country was stuck in the pot-roast-and-mashed- potato syndrome. This new crop of cookbooks will tell you everything from how to clean raw abalone to how to prepare a really good, well, pot roast with mashed potatoes, one of my favorites. The cookbooks incorporate all the flavors and delicacy of the new American cuisine as practiced in imaginative restaurants...
...slighted in recent cookbook publishing, but Paul Prudhomme's blackened everything has overshadowed the basics such as red beans and rice and pralines. Justin Wilson, who has a Cajun-cooking show on PBS, has remedied that with his humorous tome, Homegrown Louisiana Cookin' (Macmillan; $19.95). Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie by Bill Neal (Knopf; $19.95) serves the same purpose for Southern baking. It is comprehensive and sparingly illustrated...
...bugs to buzz forth last week, the insects became the talk of the town. As if the prospect of stepping on them were not revolting enough, University of Chicago ecology professor Monte Lloyd is urging people to eat them. Says he: "They are quite good, like avocado and new potato mixed." A sample recipe: dip cicadas in batter and fry until golden brown. Serve with cocktail sauce or sour cream, or use as a pizza topping...
...this is the last lap of the 20th century. Old values are exhausted, and new styles are hitting their stride. This is true even in Primrose Hill, where Harry, an old-fashioned ladies' man and pub potato, is drawn into the messy lives of friends and family. Brother Freddie, "a poet of the '50s in the sense that his career was almost totally confined to the years 1958-59," has been sexually recharged by modern medicine. Son Piers is a wastrel and dodgy lodger at his father's house. Ex-stepdaughter Bunty is a lesbian, and niece ) Fiona an alcoholic...
When a five-year civil war in the early 1980s drove farmers to abandon their land and livestock, swarms of once docile domestic pigs and their offspring returned to the wild, rooting up the earth in peasants' gardens and devouring cassava, sweet potato and groundnut crops. With their powerful sense of smell, vicious temperament and high birthrate -- sows can bear litters of up to 15 young four times a year -- the beasts are a formidable new enemy for local peasants. Moving mostly in darkness and traveling up to 20 miles a night, the wild pigs have cut local food production...