Word: taco
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...lives. Latin colors and shapes in clothing and design, with their origins deep in the Moorish curves of Spain or the ancient cultures of Central and South America, are now so thoroughly mixed into the mainstream that their source is often forgotten. There seems to be a Taco Bell on every corner, Corona beer in every bar. The First Lady's preferred fashion designer, Adolfo, is Cuban. And out of the crossover into the mainstream come some curious hybrids: bolero jackets with blue jeans, Jalapeno Cheez Whiz, Brie enchiladas and, in Santa Fe, even an adobe McDonald...
Traveling southwest, we come to Dallas and the elegant hotel the Mansion on Turtle Creek, whose chef, Dean Fearing, offers The Mansion on Turtle Creek Cookbook (Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 287 pages; $25). Fearing has adapted the spicy Indian-Mexican-Spanish influences of the region to fashionable nouvelle creations like lobster taco with yellow-tomato salsa and jicama salad. His intricate arrangements and subtle desert colors make his creations as intriguing to the eye as to the palate, although nearly impossible for the average home cook to duplicate...
...parent company may provide the architectural plans for the construction of the store, the uniforms for the workers and prizes to be used in promotional giveaways. Perhaps most important, many franchisers offer name recognition backed by advertising razzle-dazzle. Each of the 2,600 Taco Bell outlets in the U.S. has benefited from the chain's national TV campaign starring Chicago Bears Quarterback Jim McMahon...
...away. In the title story, he decides to find out a little something about Ponce Cruse Evans, the woman who writes the syndicated column "Hints from Heloise." This involves, for some reason, driving from Chicago to San Antonio, where Evans lives. "In Muskogee, Oklahoma," Frazier confides, "I saw a Taco Hut, a Taco Bell, and a Taco Tico." Then he has to find a suitable motel ("I wanted a locally owned one") and assess his impressions so far: "I had not been in Texas long before I started having millions of insights about the difference between Texas and the rest...
MOST DEPRESSING TASTE TEST Gathering ten trained tasters to do a blind sampling of foods meant to go with Korbel California champagne, the Palatex company came up with the following amazing results: fried fish sticks beat out caviar, Oreos were preferred to strawberries, taco filling to foie gras and Oriental pepper steak to escargots, while Kentucky Fried Chicken won over duck a l'orange...