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...food. Order the Monkfish with Fennel Puree, Shallot Jus and Chanterelles ($16.95). The capers melt in your mouth, the fish is white and tender and the accompanying mashed potatoes are completely integrated into the whole eating experience. Some restaurants slap down an ice-cream scoop dollop of mushy tuber that screams, "Here, you want starch, you got starch!" Not this place. Here even potatoes are treated as the god of all side dishes and are served with panache...
...whom, several years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded government grants. The most famous of the performers, Karen Finley, thrilled audiences by coating herself in chocolate and doing highly inventive autoerotic exercises with sweet potatoes. Some members of Congress, worried perhaps about the inevitable outcry from the tuber-rights community, deemed this an unworthy expenditure of tax dollars. The grants were rescinded--and a cause was born. The martyrs came ready-made, as did the name with the capitalized numeral Four, lending their cause a portentous...
...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...
Died. Larry Fine, 73, one of the Three Stooges; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. As the frizzy-haired, tuber-nosed sidekick of Moe and Curly, Larry played an amiable idiot who spent most of his time dodging pies. Veterans of one-and two-reel shorts of the '30s, the Stooges enjoyed an extraordinary revival on TV in the late '50s, when their ham-handed slapstick endeared them to a new generation of children...