Word: transylvanian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...towner, the shadow of Wrigley Field may seem an odd place to find one of the nation's best cookbook stores, but Season has scored in the now fashionable neighborhood with butcher-block decor and tomes on food and drink, including esoteric offerings such as one on Transylvanian cuisine. Everyone seems hungry for the stock. "Some people collect cookbooks as art," says co-owner Barry Bluestein. "Some see them as sociological studies of what people were eating in different times and places, and some just ask, 'Is this a good read...
...excuse for merchandising; Elvira ain't exactly the Care Bears. Still, if you went to the Law School Film Society's screenings last night, you had the option of picking up Elvira t-shirts, studded wristbands and even a cookbook inspired by the movie, featuring Elvira's recipes for "Transylvanian Ghoulash," "Bedeviled Eggs" and "Welsh Rare-Bats...
...troubles broke into the open last November, when a riot by 10,000 workers and residents in the industrial city of Brasov touched off a chain of smaller work stoppages and protests across the country. "For the first time in memory," says an experienced political observer in the Transylvanian city of Cluj, "there are signs that this crazy leadership is losing its grip...
...adventurous, Eastern Europe provides a wide range of possibilities, from the art treasures of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum to mountain climbing in the Caucasus to inspecting the Transylvanian castle of Vlad the Impaler, the model for Dracula (just turn right at the Borgo Pass). "East Germany is probably the best single buy in travel right now," says Bern Marcowitz, vice president of the Cortell Group, a New York tour organizer who offers a 15-day, four-country tour that starts in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Cost: $712. "Eastern Europe in general is more inexpensive, and it's attracting a lot of Americans...