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...CHARACTER in a George Higgins novel ever knowingly purchased a product made in Finland, ate a spinach salad, contributed to Common Cause or crossed his 7s. Higgins people are tough, and spend their time doing one of two things--being tough or (more often) talking about being tough...
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A CANOE. A friend in New England recently put in an asparagus bed he won't be able to enjoy a meal from for two years. Also spinach for this summer, unions for fall, Jerusalem artichokes for a Christmas treat--but he was ready for some pleasure now; and that's what his canoe...
...with 33 layers of dough to symbolize Christ's age at his death. And there is Beautiful Aurora's Pillow, a pastry puffed up by the immortal Brillat-Savarin that combines pheasant, veal, pork, foie gras, Cognac and truffles, which might be accompanied by pinaattiohukaiset, a Finnish spinach pancake that is far easier to eat than pronounce...
...purchased the budget recipe book Bon Appétit from the Pillsbury Co. Under Rense's stewardship, Bon Appetit (circ. 1.3 million) has become the culinary equivalent of Digest, with glossy color photographs of such dishes as caramel cream puff bouchees and oyster and spinach souffle. Says Rense: "I have no interest in a magazine that tells you 1,001 ways to prepare hamburger. I wanted a cooking magazine for people like me who are too busy to cook...
...suggestion that I should be grateful for not living as the Mongolians, Brazilians or Soviets do, or that I am overprivileged because I live in a cramped, ugly row house with nosy neighbors, reminds me that 40 years ago my grandmother told me to eat my spinach because "poor children were starving in China...