Word: soy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week that the Administration was prepared to slam the door by Jan. 30 on more than $400 million worth of West European imports, including Italian white wine, French cognac and British gin. The Europeans came right back with threatened new barriers against such U.S. products as corn-gluten feed, soy cakes, rice and almonds. Yeutter spoke darkly of possible "major disruptions in international trade." In Paris, a French trade minister warned that Europe would respond "eye for eye, tooth for tooth." He also accused the U.S. of "choosing the Rambo method" for resolving the issue...
During off-the-cuff taste tests conducted around Harvard Yard yesterday, the taste of the caramel-colored beverage was described as something close to "boiled Pepsi", "soy sauce" and "generic supermarket soda." Jolt is advertised as being "inspired by the need for a better tasting soft drink...
...free markets. Last month the U.S. Treasury extolled a $500 million World Bank loan to Brazil as an "excellent" example of such lending. In return for the money, Brazil agreed to cut deeply into a variety of agricultural subsidies and to relax government control of the marketing of soy products, corn and cotton...
...influx is culinary. Does any other city on earth have Tibetan, Peruvian, Afghan and Ethiopian restaurants? The Kam Sen grocery store in Queens draws buyers of Korean cha jang gu soo noodles and fermented Chinese "thousand-year-old" eggs packed in mud. The store sells eight kinds of soy sauce. In Flushing, a little way down from the Japan Sari House and an Italian restaurant called La Giocanda, the Bharat Bazaar has sacks of dried red chilis, deep purple mustard seeds, cloves and pistachios, and rents Indian videocassettes on the side...
There are other frozen soy-based competitors. Ice Bean, for example, has been sold in health-food emporiums since 1976, and a new effort is reported to be in the works in Atlanta. But Tofutti seems to have the edge, and Mintz is looking to new horizons. He is experimenting with tofu-based drinks and a vegetable salad...