Word: veale
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...millions of vegetarians, beef is a four-letter word; veal summons charnel visions of infanticide. Many children, raised on hit films like Babe and Chicken Run, recoil from eating their movie heroes and switch to what the meat defeaters like to call a "nonviolent diet." Vegetarianism resolves a conscientious person's inner turf war by providing an edible complex of good-deed-doing: to go veggie is to be more humane. Give up meat, and save lives...
...that was otherwise more French than anything else. Similarly when the Reagan White House faced the challenge of coming up with something distinctly Canadian to entertain Brian Mulroney in 1988: Smoked salmon and shrimp mousse with dilled cucumber sauce, before an otherwise distinctly Californian fest of roast loin of veal, tarragon sauce, puree of sweet red peppers, spring asparagus, watercress and radicchio salad...
...ultimate fighting tournament in which expert practitioners of such disciplines as karate, kick boxing, kung fu, kempo, kakutogi and tae kwon do duke it out to determine which "K" martial art reigns supreme. It's a lot like Iron Chef, with humans taking the pounding as opposed to the veal cutlets...
...honorands ate last night at Annenberg Hall to music performed by Yo-Yo Ma '76 and members of the Harvard University Choir. They dined on smoked salmon, veal loin with Madeira sauce and tomato with turnip purée, with an almond tuile basket for dessert...
...Europe's organic farmers are enjoying flush times. "Every time there's another bse scare, our customers increase," says Richard Counsell, an organic farmer in southwest England. Jean Bessière, an organic butcher at Paris' Raspail market, says he is selling 30% more beef, and 100% more veal and pork, since October. Dominique Vérot, spokesman for France's National Federation of Organic Agriculture, reports that organic meat sales are up by 25% to 30% nationwide. He expects the country's organic farmers to number more than 25,000 by 2005-a sevenfold increase over...