Word: scampi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That definitely has something to do with why I am so compelled to identify, organize, socialize--to be president of the BSA," she says, pausing over a bite of shrimp scampi at dinner recently in Lowell Dining Hall...
Last week, some friends and I checked out the new California Pizza Kitchen restaurant on Eliot St. If you've been there, you know that this isn't your ordinary pizza parlor. The toppings are unreal (Thai chicken? Shrimp scampi? Peking duck?). There's no tomato sauce. The dough is almost weightless, and you can get it in honey wheat. As we were eating, one of my friends, a local, uncorked a typical anti-California one-liner: "This pizza reminds me a lot of California: light and airy...
...mistake to think that California's glory days are over. It is still a land of infinite possibilities--a land not bound by tradition or by guilt. A land where shrimp scampi passes as a pizza topping. It is a tragic land, to be sure. As Christopher Isherwood saw, California "is a tragic country--like Palestine, like every Promised Land...