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...whites with her wire whisk. She takes every short cut, squeezes lemons through "my ever-clean dish towel," samples sauces with her fingers. No matter if she breaks the rules. Her verve and insouciance will see her through. Even her failures and faux pas are classic. When a potato pancake falls on the worktable, she scoops it back into the pan, bats her big blue eyes at the cameras, and advises: "Remember, you're all alone in the kitchen...
...posts except "a plague of locusts." An innocent abroad with a camera, Jacobi touches off a spy scare but outwits the entire Communist secret service by comedy's end. That's child's play for a caterer who was "the first to make bridegrooms out of potato salad." So is the play child's play...
...discovered why the artists of the Hamptons, the Russians and the Poles prefer to drink their vodka "neat." I recently tried to concoct a truly Russian mixed drink-vodka and beet borscht, blended with a dab of sour cream and topped off with a miniature boiled potato. My frothy, fuchsia discovery, dubbed "The Volga Boatman," was a pretty drink. But one sip told me it was aptly named. It tasted like river silt...
Discussing economic power, he described relationships between "Farmer X and Farmer Y," in terms of acreage allotment and sweet potato co-operatives. In this country, he said, you have to organize just to get fertilizer...
Also for Paddyfields. Trial plantings of cabbage yielded 505 crates per acre of asphalt-layered soil, compared with 260 crates for untreated acres. Potato yields rose 50% and cucumbers as much as 100%. The economics were even more impressive. With cabbage selling at $2 per crate, the increased yield would bring a farmer added revenue of $490 per acre, allowing him to pay off the cost of the asphalt layer-about $225 per acre-with his first harvest. Furthermore, Hansen and Erickson estimate, the underground asphalt will not deteriorate for at least 15 years...