Word: spinach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agree with her own. She even upbraided Charles de Gaulle, when the general testily said that the French fleet would like to attack the British as well as the Germans. Nor was Winston spared her temper. Once after a battle over his spendthrift habits, she hurled a dish of spinach at his head. She missed...
...classic New Yorker cartoon pictured Moppet staring mutinously at Mom over a plate of murky compost. "It's broccoli, dear," says Mom. Says Moppet: ''I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." There is good news for M. & M. The 1979 garden catalogues piling into mailboxes this spring offer a number of vegetables that look like spinach, taste better than spinach, but are not Spinacia oleracea. Some of them have been imported from the Orient, notably shungiku (Chrysanthemum coronarium) and tampala hinn choy (Amaranthus tricolor...
...hell with spinach. For the venturesome home gardener, there is a new sweet pepper, Dutch Treat, whose pungent fruits progress from yellow to orange to red and are edible at all stages; it comes, naturally, from Holland. There is also an improved version of the so-called yard-long bean, a.k.a. Orient Express or asparagus bean because of its asparaginous flavor. From China come bitter melon, gow choy, a garlicky chive, bok choy cabbage, and an aromatic celery, heung kuhn -all valuable for good wokmanship. A Japanese melon called Honey Drip is described by its originators as "intolerably delicious." Vegetable...
...time, a day-by-day menu that allows no substitutions. At least by the dieter. Tarnower himself changed the menus somewhat when he wrote his book. For example, the dinner that the original followers most dreaded (cottage cheese, eggs and cooked cabbage) has been changed to roast chicken, spinach, green peppers and string beans...
...gets you a huge bowl of soup that serves about five people. (One thing to watch at Shanghai--the menu doesn't indicate how many servings you get from each item, so ask.) Mostly clear broth, the soup contains a generous number of wontons and some big leafy spinach. The wontons were a little skimpy on the meat filling, but on the whole were very tasty...