Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From all over the U.S., restaurant and hotel dessert chefs and pastry-shop bakers come to this unusual little school to refine their confectionary skills. The curriculum includes seminars devoted to such succulent topics as breads and doughs, sugar, cake decorating and, during this week, the complex and artful world of chocolate. The presiding guru is Herr Doktor Albert Kumin, 76, the Swiss dessert genius. Although he has never published a cookbook, in the rarefied world of professional chefs Kumin is regarded as a viscount of chocolate, a prince of pastry. He is the creator of the dessert menu...
...prison. Next day the government suspended the opposition daily La Prensa for 15 days and shut down Radio Catolica, run by the Roman Catholic Church. The moves brazenly violated President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's solemn vows to uphold civil rights. Meanwhile, the Sandinistas confiscated the vast San Antonio sugar plantation, the country's largest private business...
...most frequent gripe was that perestroika so far has provided few benefits in day-to-day life. Said Veniamin Yarin, a metalworker in the west Siberian city of Nizhni Tagil: "The workers say, 'Where is perestroika when the supply of goods in shops is as poor as ever, sugar is bought with ration cards and there is no meat...
...down to the causes of why sugar is a pathetically precious gift on the day of international solidarity of workers. Our new leaders took a fearless look into the eyes of statistical truth about alcoholism and its consequences. They gasped. A harsh, radical decision was taken. But the emotion, quite justified, was not supported, unfortunately, by a long-range, well-worked-out plan. An appearance of discussion was organized -- in the old way, by fishing for supporting voices...
...will freeze. What is done in the name of protecting one's cushy armchair isn't ideology, it's cushiology. Between the pro-perestroikers and the anti-perestroikers, unfortunately, there is a large group I call the "oikers." They're the ones who whine constantly about the lack of sugar and other things but do not lift a finger to stop those who want to kill perestroika. It is time people understood that there are not two separate perestroikas -- one material and one political. Without defending democracy, there's no point in demanding democracy...