Word: tortillas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NATURALLY, the variations on a hot dog are many, and Chicago Frank's seems to offer most of them. Beside the flagship dog are many other offerings: the Franko Bueno (a dog inside a tortilla shell with salsa and mozzarella cheese), the bagel dog (that's a hot dog wrapped in bagel dough), and the ever-present chili dog, corn dog and cheese dog. All were a delight to try, with the hot dog always superbly flavored and properly cooked, the toppings fresh and lively, and the fries crisply done to perfection...
After a 7 a.m. breakfast of bacon rolled in a singed tortilla, John David is ready to leave for school. Dressed stylishly in a blue-striped button-down shirt, blue sweater, wide-pocket gray jeans and Nike sneakers, the sixth- grader hops up into the cab of his father's pickup truck for the ten-minute ride to Bedichek Middle School, where a majority of the 1,040 students are Anglo. After school, John David takes a city bus home...
LOSS LEADER OF THE YEAR The last word on huevos rancheros has to be huevos Bridge Creek, served at a Berkeley restaurant for which the dish is named. Based on a paper-thin wheat tortilla with the required fried eggs, this elegant, succulent version has three sauces -- one fresh, made from scratch of Mexican tomatillos, another the classic tomato and onion salsa, and the third a chili-flavored pork carnitas -- all capped with a dome of melted Jack cheese. "It costs us $18 to make," says Chef-Owner John Hudspeth. Since $10.50 was the menu price, it is easy...
...concrete as a construction worker at Madison Square Garden during a stay in New York City. The publisher of his first novel, Cup of Gold, a lush fantasy about the pirate Henry Morgan, promptly went belly-up. So did his next two publishers. It was not until 1935, with Tortilla Flat, a somewhat arch dramatization of the lives of Mexican Americans, that Steinbeck had his first success...
...walking. He keeps in shape by doing calisthenics every day; he also jogs. He admits to a mild passion for soccer, but rarely attends matches at Mexico's huge national stadium. His tastes in food are simple: for dinner he may eat a plate of fruit or quesadilla (tortilla and cheese) and drink a glass of milk. He also enjoys an occasional highball...