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...maintains, Californians love novelty. "There are so many cultures with exciting cuisines here," observes the Austrian-born Puck. "After all, the culinary heritage of Thailand is more interesting than Poland's. Californians are very open. They're less likely than back East to go for pot roast or baked scrod!" When he started up Spago in Beverly Hills, he employed young Asians in his kitchen. In 1983 Puck decided to look East himself -- Far East -- with Chinois on Main in Santa Monica, now a Cal-Asian temple. His 2 1/2-year-old Postrio in San Francisco is also a Pacific...
...Scrod is a catch-all term for any fish fillet that becomes white when cooked. It usually refers to cod or haddock, but on good fishing days can denote halibut and other flakier varieties. Lemon juice that has been dried (dehydrated), and then moistened again is said to have been reconstituted. Dental floss is usually made of fine strings of nylon. If waxed, the strings tend to fray less often during use. Unwaxed pieces, however, are thinner and can fit better in small cracks. And rack and pinyon steering is the term for a geared steering mechanism first found...
While undergraduates living on campus during the academic year are forced to ingest such upscale prison fare as broccoli-cheese pasta, scrod that never had a chance, and produce that would make a P.O.W. think twice, alumni living in the houses are being feted to meals fit for a French Sun King...
...plan on spending a good deal of your budget on what Cambridge has to offer in the way of gastronomical delights. Here's a sample of the area's finest (and not so finest). Good luck and watch out for the Harvard dining halls' steady diet of cod, scrod, and shad...
...Dental School yesterday renamed its main building in honor of the late Sera Gelfand Deutschman '21, who bequeathed the school $3 million upon her death. After a luncheon of scrod and blusberry pit at the Harvard Club of Boston, President Bok called Deutschman a "great friend of the Dental School and a great admirer of its work...