Word: sashimi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cafe Provencal underlines sauteed foie gras with mango puree and cushions roast pheasant on mushroom ravioli. The menu at Lydia Shire's Boston restaurant, Biba, which is due to open this month, will feature dishes as stylistically diverse as Thai green-curry lobster soup, salad of rock crab and sashimi, and lambs' tongues with fava beans and cilantro. Even in New Orleans, where locals still favor their own Creole-Cajun kitchen, Susan Spicer, of the Bistro at Maison de Ville, has won converts with her Provencal improvisations...
Normally people's lives do not flash before their eyes when they eat sashimi. But a meal of Japanese fugu, or puffer fish, is no everyday dining experience. Because the fish's internal organs contain the nerve poison tetrodotoxin, Japanese gourmets rely on expert chefs to remove the toxic entrails before serving. Yet for several Japanese diners each year, usually those who clean the fish themselves, a fugu supper is their last...
...akita and jogs for the beta-endorphins before putting in a typically grueling day at the office, followed by an hour of therapy and meeting of the condo board. There is no time for sex, so for many Yuppies celibacy is a way of life. Yuppies eat tortellini, tuna sashimi and chefs salad, and favor restaurants with ceiling fans and dark green walls. No instant food ever passes Yuppie lips. The kitchen features scores of exotic appliances that cannot be washed in the dishwasher, window herb gardens and a double sink for draining pasta...
...went on to his evening's business entertainment. He escorted a favored client and one of the client's associates to an elegant restaurant ($110 a person) where, seated on cushions on a tatami-covered floor, they dined on a twelve-course meal that included clear soup, sashimi and tempura. That contrasted with the group's next stop, a Western-style nightspot, where Cardin-clad hostesses poured liberal amounts of whisky and brandy. Cost for the after-dinner stop, which continued until well after 11 p.m., was $360. "I don't like entertaining," says Nohmura...