Word: stews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fine character actors, but in this case, we've seen the characters too often before. Most of them are in the well-worn uptight-showbiz mold; the Yiddish momma schtick at Benjy's Brooklyn home is an excruciating parade of old cliches. Only one memorable move emerges from this stew of reheated vaudeville; when Benjy announces: "We Jews know about two things suffering, and where to get great Chinese food...
Iowa Beef, though, has often been an exception in many areas. In the early 1960s the company revolutionized the beef-packing industry with a new process for handling meat known as boxed beef. Cuts of everything from sirloin to stew meat were prepared right at the packinghouse plant and then shipped frozen, ready to cook, to retailers. Previously, all beef packers had shipped whole carcasses out to butchers, who cut the meat down to retail-size portions...
...Stew Leonard's Farms, a large retail food outlet in Norwalk, Conn., computerized check-out scanners keep watch over the shelf and warehouse stocks of more than 650 different consumer items. Says J. Michael Peters, the firm's financial controller: "These scanners have helped tremendously to keep inventories in line with sales. Before we got them, it would take days, sometimes even weeks, to check out our inventory-to-sales position. Now the scanners provide the data instantaneously...
...suburb, a satellite in the orbits of both Cincinnati and Dayton, a minor metropolitan cluster, a country seat, a bump on the plain, a galactic microdot where 63.189 people want to see what will happen next. "Davis probably could not have done better in his search for an American stew, but his selection begs the question of the value of conveniently designating one city or town as a microcosm for the larger whole Colonial historians, faced with a torrent of town studies recently, have come to no firm conclusions about their significance in studying a much more homogeneous society...
...Manchu Stew stand. This item was genuinely wretched--the recipe, as far as I could tell, was rice, soy sauce, grains of hamburger meat, and canned celery. A few blocks further downtown, a vendor was selling the same dish as a Wok-a-Doo Stew...