Word: tubers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chronicles of self-improvement, what's going on here is not wholly new. Speech coaches in New York City have built careers battling Brooklynese, and in Boston there are Kennedy clones who have lately learned to talk like television anchors (for whom Cuba never rhymes with tuber). Why shouldn't they do it in Chattanooga too? This is the market niche an intrepid speech pathologist named Beverly Inman-Ebel spotted several years back when she set herself up in practice teaching "speech perfection," or how not to talk like a Southerner...
...that will probably become less important as American farmers continue to experiment with these varieties. The appeal of these new products is not limited to New York and California, as food trends so often are. In Chicago, the current rage is jicama (pronounced hee-kahmah), a knobby, earth-colored tuber from Mexico; it looks rather like a giant water chestnut, which is just about what this crisp, icy salad vegetable tastes like. Jicama has been heavily promoted at the 87 Dominick's supermarkets, with good results. "We used to sell a case per store every other week or so," says...