Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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E.A.T., a pricey Manhattan food specialty shop (with a branch in Troy, Mich.), flies in Arava melons ($4 each) from Israel, eight varieties of wild mushrooms ($8 to $15 per Ib.) from France and white truffles ($17.50 per oz.) from Italy. Such delicacies are instant sellouts, boosting E.A.T.'s gross 50% (to $1.5 million) over last year's total...
...friends three times a week. "In my work," he says, "I assemble a lot of things and have control over their timing. To be a cook, you bring these experiences into play." For surgeons and soldiers, executives, editors, artists and salesmen, there is this same symbiotic relationship between shop and stove. Says Howard Abrahams, 32, a Manhattan attorney who graduated cum culinary laude from two cooking schools: "Cooking and law are quite similar. With both, there's the challenge of problem solving, logic and reasoning...
...roll in the kitchen. From the capital's Georgetown Day School to 30 department-store seminars?organized in 15 states by Philadelphia's Lea Bramnick and Rita Simon?the generation gap is being bridged with sauce and stockpot. Says Simon: "Children who have learned how to shop in a supermarket become demons of perfection, picking fruit that is ripe, examining vegetables for soft spots, watching the best buys...
...billion and offices in 93 countries, is the parent of Citibank-formerly First National City Bank -New York City's biggest bank, second largest in the nation and the world (after Bank of America). It is not, obviously, your friendly, flexible Bert Lance lending and saving shop. It is a hard-nosed company that will as swiftly foreclose a multimillion-dollar high-rise as a mom-and-pop delicatessen if the mortgage payments lag. Considering the cost of Manhattan real estate and the sensitivities of its stockholders, Citicorp might well have elected to erect yet an other no-frills...
...Almost from its beginnings, Citicorp Center was envisioned as a place to shop and savor and feast at all hours, an In spot in the inner city. To Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, it will be "a living, positive part of the neighborhood, 24 hours a day, for decades to come. We would like to think of the Citicorp Center as the cornerstone of a new New York...