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...Maryland crab and chorizo pozole served with summer vegetables, pumpkin seed-crusted bison with poblano whipped potato, fava bean and chanterelle ragout and apple chipotle sauce, salads of gold and red tomatoes and greens, followed by mango and coconut ice cream dome, peaches, raspberries, red chili pepper sauce and tequila sabayon. Hey, who needs Tex-Mex when you're eating chili pepper sauce with the ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fox State Dinner: Pass the Chipotle, Mr. President... | 9/5/2001 | See Source »

...about 15 other people. Some anonymous guy was paying the whole bar’s tab, and the drinks kept coming. I thought I was counting vigorously how many drinks I had had, but at some point I apparently lost count—probably after the $46 shot of tequila. I didn’t feel too well the next day. Uch, a sportswriter, had taken me back to his place to sleep, dropping me off shortly before 11:30 a.m. at my apartment. I soaked in the bathtub for awhile and lay motionless on my bed, feeling so sick...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CHATTANOOGA, TENN.: Living Alone | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

Here is a parenting parable for our age. Carla Wagner, 17, of Coral Gables, Fla., spent the afternoon drinking the tequila she charged on her American Express Gold Card before speeding off in her high-performance Audi A4. She was dialing her cell phone when she ran over Helen Marie Witty, a 16-year-old honor student who was out Rollerblading. Charged with drunken driving and manslaughter, Carla was given a trial date--at which point her parents asked the judge whether it would be O.K. if Carla went ahead and spent the summer in Paris, as she usually does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents and Children: Who's In Charge Here? | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...clear plastic bag over his head while a henchman named El Gordo (the Fat Man) bounces on his chest. But perhaps Ramon's favorite ritual is carne asada--barbecue--executing entire families and tossing their corpses on a bed of flaming tires, as he and his goons celebrate with tequila and cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: The Border Monsters | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...hours, when the borrachos come over, the drunks and Friday-night revelers who have been enjoying the Nuevo Laredo night life, some even venturing to Boystown, the red-light district, where prostitutes have held court for generations of Texas fraternity boys, roughnecks and cowboys. The revelers will buy tequila and six-packs of Corona at half the U.S. price on the Mexican side and bring it back across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: Just Another Day In A Bridge Town | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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