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Arguably the best steak house is Christ Cella (160 E. 46th St.) and the best seafood place the Gloucester House (37 E. 50th St.), both expensive. The two best French restaurants in town are La Caravelle (33 W. 55th St.) and Lutèce (249 E. 50th St.). Bring money...
Curiously, foreigners prefer restaurants that specialize in food from other than their own country. Indians are generally disappointed with Indian food, but relish Mid-Eastern cuisine. One Puerto Rican says there are no good Puerto Rican restaurants around--besides, she would rather dine on seafood, which she adores. A student from Kenya can't find restaurants that serve African food so instead he eats Indian foods that have a familiar flavor. Everyone salivates over Chinese food--except for the Chinese...
...pompano or snapper, he landed a three-month contract to sell the school system 40,000 Ibs. Says Orleans Parish Food Buyer Jeanne Elliott: "It's about as popular as spaghetti and meat sauce or veal parmigiana," adding, "Of course, we just call shark 'seafood' on the menus." Battistella is also successfully selling frozen shark fillets (at $1.32 per lb.) in New Orleans supermarkets, and reports that a food processor is testing a shark sandwich spread...
...transmission of impulses in the nervous system-just as in Fleming's account. Saxitoxin is produced by a single-cell sea creature that flourishes during the warmest months. Oysters, clams and mussels that eat the organism are poisonous to humans, which is why in some areas such seafood is not harvested in summer. By contrast, fugu poison, which has almost the same effect, is always present in the sex organs and liver of Japanese puffer fish. Hence in Japan chefs who prepare puffers are required to learn how to make the fish edible...
...Says James Chandler, a State Department liaison officer at Eglin: "I thought the fishermen would be the hardest group to place, but there is a demand for them all the way from Florida to Texas." Last week 25 fishermen and their families flew to Port Isabel, Texas, where Isbell Seafood, Inc. will put them on its 21 shrimp boats...