Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cooking from a 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...
...does none of these things. In her tight black stretch pants she recklessly sleds down the hill with the baby and feeds him Frosted Flakes when the pot roast burns. She gets all dreamy eyed when she dances around the living room to her Elvis records. No one speaks to her at PTA meetings or buys her Tupperware -- except the husbands, who further enrage their wives by giving it to them on their birthdays. The janitor throws out her oversweet, marshmallow-laden offering to the bake sale...
...advance. In Romania and Bulgaria, even a room at a hotel does not guarantee a visitor a seat in the hotel's restaurant. In Poland one may have to stand in line for barszcz (beet soup) and golabki (meat-filled rolled cabbage). In Prague if one hankers after crisp roast duck and three kinds of dumplings at a restaurant with a view of Hradcany Castle and the Vltava River, one must reserve several days ahead...
...picture TV has often painted of it. Was Dad once a pillar of wisdom and understanding? In the new shows he is either a slob or an oaf. Did Mom used to be the nurturing guardian of home and hearth? Now if she even knows how to put a roast in the oven, she could sear it with her sarcasm. TV kids have always been mischievous, but now they are bratty and disrespectful as well. Standards of decorum have gone out the window too: Dad burps out loud at the dinner table; a kid snaps photos of his mom shaving...
BOSTON--In a morning of wry wit, green ties and Irish sing-alongs, Massachusetts politicians gathered to roast each other yesterday at state Senate President William Bulger's annual St. Patrick's Day Breakfast...