Word: salads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nora Ephron, magazine columnist and author of Crazy Salad, a collection of vinegary essays on women in America, found herself one day last year in a Fort Worth television studio at dawn. She was a guest on KXAS-TV'S Good Morning show, one of dozens of promotional outlets she had been plugged into while touring the country to sell her book. "I watched it for about ten minutes," she recalls, "and I realized that the reason I was on this show was that they thought Crazy Salad was a book about lettuce. It was a farm-news show...
...serving, v. Mother's 1,000. A typical 500-calorie menu at Eugenie-les-Bains last season included: first day-mousseline of crayfish with watercress sauce, leg of milk-fed lamb cooked in wild hay, apple surprise, eggplant caviar, salmon with sorrel sauce, pear souffle. Second day-salad of artichokes and green beans in wine vinegar, sweetbreads with mushrooms, melon sherbet, poached egg with watercress, whiting with chopped vegetables, baked apple...
...many like Vitelli, the number of consecutive meals of yogurt and salad reached nightmarish proportions, driving them off-campus, where they now live and cook native dishes to their hearts' content. There they are able to team up with friends of the same heritage to exploit the culinary skills they sharpened in the old country. Vitelli feels she is particularly fortunate because she and her compatriots share such a predilection for edibles. "When two or more Italians--be they men, women or children--get together, just as long as they're within 50 miles of a stove, the main topic...
...brief talk to the gathering after network projections came in, Grandmaison said, "Bayh has said goodbye," but predicted Harris might stay in the race a while longer. "Now he can call for a chauffeur and get extra mayonnaise on his chicken-salad sandwich while he's still in there," Grandmaison said...
Handy attributed Blair and Levin's success to their consumption of egg salad sandwiches before the match...