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Drat! It's raining outside. Let's order in. Pizza again? Chinese? Just for a change, my dear, let's try a pate de foie de canard, an oyster salad, quail with grapes and, oh, let's be daring, a tarte aux framboises...
With Butch Cassidy peddling popcorn and salad dressing, it was only a matter of time before the Sundance Kid got into the act. This week Robert Redford, 52, is launching a line of products and condiments in a new mail-order catalog with a Southwestern flavor. Titled Sundance, the 36-page catalog offers such Native American and regional specialties as dried wildflower bouquets ($25), chili wreaths ($36) and handmade cowboy boots...
...intoxication throughout history and throughout the animal kingdom. In many cases, humans and animals have shared the same drugs. Hawkmoths, for example, fly erratically after drinking the nectar of datura flowers. The Aztecs used the same plant as a pain-killer, and British soldiers in Jamestown who made a salad of its leaves became intoxicated for eleven days...
...that's not all. Many consumers have added a new standard to their shopping lists: corporate responsibility. They may favor Campbell's Prego spaghetti sauce over Unilever's Ragu because Campbell runs a day-care center and Unilever invests in South Africa. Consumers are eating chicken instead of tuna salad because thousands of dolphins drown each year in tuna nets. They have put pressure on Uniroyal to halt distribution of the suspected carcinogen Alar, a chemical used to ripen apples and keep them crisp, which may have influenced the company's decision last month to take Alar...
...lightweight tables and chairs are set out under a mesquite tree, just as they would be in an African hunting camp in the shadow of Kilimanjaro. Marge, a silver-haired Texas beauty dressed for the bush in denim and turquoise, lays on a simple feast of guacamole and chicken- salad sandwiches. Calvin uncorks bottles of fine South African grand...