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...range: 50?-$2), and often signed his paintings with odd names: The Old Vagabond, The Disciple of Lu Pan (god of carpenters), The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard; in Peking. Living with 30 relatives (he supported about 50) in a rambling house, Ch'ih painted chicks, crickets, shrimp and crabs, occasionally a landscape ("Only the rich have known landscapes, but every ricksha boy knows a shrimp or a crab") in the Sung Dynasty tradition...
...Gulf, source of livelihood for the area's shrimp fishermen, across the tiny communities of Pecan Island, Creole...
Dehydrated foods, never much admired, may be headed for kitchen fame. This week Dr. A. Copson of Raytheon Manufacturing Co. showed dried shrimp, lobster tails, strawberries, etc. that actually taste fresher than many fresh ones...
...Raytheon dried shrimp is no shriveled, leathery remnant. It is nearly as big as a fresh peeled shrimp and made of a strange, brittle material with the consistency of popcorn or puffed cereal. Taken out of an airtight plastic envelope, it smells like raw shrimp, and its color is about the same. When one of these brittle ghosts is dropped into tepid water, it softens quickly and swells a little. After half an hour of soaking and two minutes in boiling water, the shrimp is firm, sweet and tastes like a shrimp that has been carefully preserved by freezing...
...Copson has successfully freeze-dried mushrooms, carrots, beef rib and sirloin steak, veal cutlets, pork chops, lobster, shrimp, strawberries and several kinds of fish. Uncooked green peas keep their shape but become as light as miniature ping-pong balls. Freeze-dried chicken breasts look like balsa wood. For gourmets, freeze-dried foods offer some interesting possibilities. Chicken or fish could be made to soak up several times their weight of wine or other flavorsome liquid...