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Madame Chiang Kaishek, resting on Brazil's Brocoio Island off Rio de Janeiro (TIME, July 24), was reported inclined toward U.S.-style cooking. Restaurateur Alfredo Balbis, catering to her party, also said that though her diet forbids seafood, she demanded shrimp and got it. Other items in demand: Coca-Cola, mineral water, port...
...Japs had expected a long stay on Attu. Their food supplies were ample: shrimp and crab meat and bamboo shoots, spices and soy sauce and dried black seaweed for flavoring rice. They varied this diet by catching salmon and halibut, shooting Emperor geese and Yukon River ducks. They had hundreds of gallons of sake...
...years keepers at the Bronx Zoo worried because tropical flamingos, an ace attraction, lost the bright red of their plumage after a winter in captivity. For 40 years they had been fed a diet which included Norwegian shrimp. The war forced substitution of New Orleans shrimp. This spring the long-stemmed birds emerged from winter quarters ruddier than ever. Their complete diet: a mixture of chopped green 'peppers, cod liver oil, fresh New Orleans shrimp, grated raw carrots, dried Mexican flies, dog biscuit, rice and brewer's yeast...
...emphasis: two horses marked for slaughter now pull a plow in the victory garden. Top billing at San Diego still goes to Ngagi, the slow, silent, 639-lb. gorilla. Ngagi's cage mate, Mbongo (645 lb.), died last year; he now has a lady friend, a mere shrimp named Kenya...
Lucius Beebe cast his eye back over the bloody year of 1942, recalled baked lobster Savannah, soft-shell crabs, roulade of sand crabs, jugged saddle of hare, monies marinières, rack of lamb, shrimp Creole, Strasbourg foie gras, Dom Perignon champagne, pompano belle meunière, venison steak grand veneur, shad roe bonne femme, terrapin stew, escallopini of veal, oysters Rockefeller, pheasant in casserole and eggs gashouse. . . . Concluded the Lucullan Lucius: "Betcha it won't be like this next year...