Word: tomatos
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...words that friends invariably use when describing this rare bird are Wasp and patrician -- Matthiessen's voice resounds with the kind of arrowhead sternness they hardly seem to make anymore (and his sister was the college roommate of George Bush's sister). Tomato has seldom had a longer a, and visitors are handled with a reserve at once concealed and intensified by easy courtesy. Yet the other thing always said about Matthiessen is that he's persistently tried to escape the comfort of his upbringing and put himself in wild places where privilege has no meaning...
...capital's last old- fashioned, macho places to be seen. From his usual table, he can quickly scan, and be scanned by, every patron who enters. For lunch he invariably has slab after slab of Streit's salted matzos, lavishly spread with light margarine, plus a lettuce-and-tomato salad. Between bites he waves to and chats with all the pols, power brokers and wannabes...
...sauce--which comes gratis with the pasta--is made from a distinguished brand of Italian tomato paste made of Pastine plum tomatoes...
Dozens of younger colleagues remember him as a kindly teacher who showed them the ropes about everything from how to write a lead paragraph (taut and lean) to where to find the world's greatest tomato soup (New Delhi's Ashok Hotel). "When I came here in 1971," says editor at large Strobe Talbott, "Bill made a point of guiding me through the mysteries of the place. He had a mentor quality that was very comforting...
...they incorporate only new substances -- proteins or sugars, for example -- that are already eaten in other foods, and if they don't have new allergenic substances added (like peanut oil, which is deadly to some people). One of the first products likely to hit the market is a tomato in which the gene that produces a rot-inducing enzyme has been deactivated. Another is a potato in which an enzyme that promotes bruising has been removed...