Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season' s new cookbooks, the theme is down- home, traditional and old- time, as in "Give me that old- time culinary religion...
...meatloaf-and-mashed-potatoes theme so fashionable at many trendy restaurants has apparently sparked a hunger for nostalgia in America's home cooks. At least that is the impression one gets from the season's crop of cookbooks. Their titles and dust-jacket blurbs are cozy with words like down- home, traditional, family and old-time, as in "Give me that old-time culinary religion...
Down-home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the theme of The White House Family Cookbook, by Henry Haller (Random House; 441 pages; $19.95). Executive chef at that august address for 21 years, the Swiss-born Haller retired in October, just as this reverential book was coming off the presses. Most of the recipes are for hearty, homey family favorites that reflect the regional backgrounds of Presidents from Lyndon Johnson (who favored Texas-style chili con carne, lamb hash and deer sausage), through Gerald Ford (lusty, German-influenced fare like sweet-and-sour stuffed cabbage, apple pancakes and a revolting curried...
...Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a daunting play, more because of its length (two hours and 45 minutes), its large cast of characters, its blank verse and its strange music, rather than its theme. Still, it is worth seeing for its acting. And it proves the old adage: You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word...
...Harvard sucks" theme is being taken to new heights, according to Julie Kunen, Yale '90. "T-shirts in imitation of `Hard Rock Cafe' shirts are all over the place," she said. "Instead of `Hard Rock Cafe, New York' they say, "Harvard Sucks Cafe, New Haven...