Word: garnishment
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...hours later I was beginning to feel that it had overstayed its welcome. Casa Mexico Winthrop St., across from Pinochio's Weird gold plates on the tables. Hanging lamps shaped like roosters and fish. Dark. Chicken tostada with beans, rice and a lettuce and tomato garnish and a glass of water. The restaurant was populated not by undergraduates, but by youngish looking folks who may well be graduate students. The menu, with long passages entitled "Dan Sherwood brings you a taste of old Mexico" seemed desperate to convince you how great your food was going to be. My tostada...
...fortune cookie from one of the better Chinese restaurants, The Joy Luck Club and The Wedding Banquet look beautifully alien. But this is all a trick, to entice you with a vision of novelty. The Western viewer shortly, delightedly, discovers tales of universal savor and significance. Only the garnish is regional...