Word: sturgeon
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...Soviet news agency, showed no such reluctance in publicizing the fate of a Moscow store manager. Yuri Sokolov, former director of the Gastronom No. 1, Moscow's finest food store, was renowned for being able to supply his customers with such rare or rationed delicacies as caviar, smoked sturgeon, coffee and Indian tea. As caterer to the capital's elite, Sokolov lived in high style and had friends close to Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...Wolfert's interpretation it becomes a thick stew enriched with preserved duck or goose, ham hock and garlic sausage. Among other distinctive potages, she stirs up a modern version of a traditional Basque soup called ttoro and an oyster velouté with black caviar made from Gironde River sturgeon...
...delightful A la Russe (Random House; $16.95). The 15 Soviet republics have an extraordinarily diverse cuisine, embracing the cookery of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, representing regions from the Black Sea to the Arctic Circle, reflecting tsarist extravagance and peasant reality. (Goldstein will follow a recipe for sturgeon soup with champagne, a favorite of Catherine the Great, with ukha, a fisherman's broth.) The author learned many dishes from her grandmother, an emigre from Byelorussia; and in her great-grandfather's butcher shop, she writes, "Marc Chagall played as a child." An assistant professor of Russian literature...
...schools trying the hardest are those with the worst problems. About 30% of the students at Edison High School in Miami's riot-scarred Liberty City are Creole-speaking Haitians; another 14% are students, predominantly Hispanic, who are learning English as a second language. Principal Craig Sturgeon believes that discipline is essential for learning. "We make our expectations and the punishment clear," he says. "When people are late, they are taken to the cafeteria to work on their basic skills. The second time it happens, we contact the parents, and the third time, they are forced to do work...
What ever happened to science fiction? In the 70s, readers were inundated with novels by giants of the genre: Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and scores of others. But bookstore shelves have grown barer and the names rarer. Even so, a handful of practitioners show that this may be merely a hiatus before the renaissance...