Word: soused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...degenerated into commercial slogans -- for the kitchen is a place of remembered magic. What are spells, if not womankind's oldest recipes? What is a caldron but a pot for witches' bouillabaisse? Snow White's stepmother was Apple Annie with a grudge, and Macbeth's Weird Sisters were the sous-chefs of Destiny. If a woman's place is at the stove, then it is there she spent millenniums perfecting her potions. She let her power simmer over a low flame; then she served up the concoction, a work of art from the hearth, to charm those who would love...
...idea of Pacific Rim cuisine began taking shape about 10 years ago. It can be several things, but it is never merely a transplanted ethnic cuisine. Instead it is an unpredictable culinary reflection of California's ethnic mix. Typically a chef or sous-chef may be Chinese or Japanese and may have trained in France or Italy. He or she may mix several Pacific traditions into what could be called a pan-Asian cuisine, or perhaps add just a few Far Eastern touches to American or French dishes...
...reaction of some Harvard students to these posters, so clever in their appeal to principle, so vicious in their sous-texte, has been to violate the rules of free speech and thereby play into the hands of the real enemies of freedom...
...reaction of some Harvard students to these posters, so clever in their appeal to principle, so vicious in their sous-texte, has been to violate the rules of free speech and thereby play into the hands of the real enemies of freedom...