Word: souped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since 5 a.m.: "I don't want to miss a moment, there is so much going on at this time of year." Squelching down the hillside behind her house, she point out the day lilies and ferns pushing up through the puddles and picks wild leeks for breakfast soup. An intense aesthetic response to mud is characteristic of Vermonters. In Montpelier's Horn of the Moon Cafe, a superannuated hippie explains, "Mud is, like, very natural. . . you know, like earth ... it, like, binds us together here in Vermont...
Blue-collar workers are now enjoying some of the benefits of Toyo Kogyo's new prosperity. Last week union members got a 6.9% pay hike. Says Masao Isoda, a 28-year-old foreman: "In the bad old days, I could afford only noodle soup for lunch. Now I allow myself the luxury of a fat, fried prawn with my soup...
...every city of any size has specialty stores selling freshly made pasta, as well as hard durum wheat flour for knead-it-yourselfers, and imported cheeses, sauces, oils, olives and herbs to anoint each dish. A sophisticated caterer can offer whole pasta dinners, starting with pisarei e fasoi (bean soup with gnocchi and prosciutto) through bigoli all'anitra (Venetian wheat pasta with poached duck) and baked spaghetti pie with cinnamon-flavored cream and eggs for dessert. Pasta cookbooks are churned out with dizzying regularity. Mostly written by Italians, they are generally excellent; for instance, Sicilian-descended Carlo Middione...
Another tenement symphony full of Cohens and Kellys, bubbling chicken soup and the sound of young Rachmani-noffs practicing scales? Simon is not ashamed of a well-timed note of nostalgia, but her memoir of girlhood in the South Bronx during the 1920s will be remembered for its discordances. Being part of the Old World and female is something the author cannot forget or forgive. Beneath its iridescent surface, her book is a hard, unsentimental look at a sort of "World of Our Mothers," a place of unwanted pregnancies, illegal abortions, abandonments and the desolate sense that a husband often...
...ardent devotee of the virtues of mesquite [March 1]. The aroma given off by this burning shrub is a little scent of heaven. If you have never had a steak char-broiled over an open mesquite fire, you haven't lived. And if you have never had soup made from the bones of that broiled steak, you really haven't lived...