Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italians live in cellars. ¶ 375,000 live in caves. ¶ 3,500,000 cannot afford to eat meat and sugar or drink wine...
Latin America sells the U.S. more ($3.5 billion a year in coffee, sugar and militarily essential metals), and buys more U.S. goods ($2.9 billion a year in vehicles, chemicals and textiles) than any other continent. Its peoples number 167 million, and they are multiplying 2½ times as fast as the rest of the world. But three-fifths of them are lowly tillers of the soil, and their per capita yearly income (about $275) is a meager one-sixth that of the U.S. citizen...
...olive oil. Into this balm, to which you have already added the usual condiments of salt, pepper, bay leaf, thyme, beside an atom of ginger root, put a pinch of cayenne, a nutmeg cut into small pieces, a handful of crushed jumper berries, and lastly a dessertspoon of powdered sugar (effective as musk in perfumery), which serves to fix the different aromas. Twice a day you will turn the gigot. Now we come to the main point of the preparation. After you have placed the gigot in the marinade, you will arm yourself with a surgical syringe of a size...
Salzburger Knocker. Made the easy way. This recipe is for people who cannot toss a soufflé omelette in the air to turn it over in the pan. Mix 1½ tablespoons flour and 4 tablespoons granulated sugar, and 1 pinch of salt. Add these to the well-beaten yolks of 6 eggs. Blend well, and then fold into the well-beaten whites of 6 eggs. Melt ¼lb. butter in a large, deep, iron frying pan. Pour the mixture into this. Cook over a slow flame for 3 to 4 minutes. Then place under the broiler and cook slowly...
...powers-e.g., the right to fire corrupt officials, the right to relieve Prime Ministers. Ghulam, who had appointed Ali in the first place, invited him to the palace for tea and tried to dissuade him. The tea, wisecracked one politico, proved to be "all lemon, no sugar." Ali would not budge. Ministers should be responsible, Ali believed, not to an autocratic Governor General but to the democratic Assembly. Ali then set off for the U.S., naively confident that Ghulam would not retaliate. While Ali received homage in Washington, Ghulam struck him down...