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...dinner, students prepared 400 chagio, which are crispy Vietnamese egg rolls with ground pork inside. Also served were nuoc mam, a sweet and sour, somewhat spicy fish sauce, and banh cuon, which are soft, white flat noodles with Vietnamese ham, known as cha, placed...
...industry has grown tremendously because Americans have been forsaking pork and beef over the years and consuming far more chicken: 66 lbs. per capita last year, up from 28 lbs. in 1960. Health is not the only reason -- consumers also know a bargain. At an average 88 cents per lb. for a whole broiler, chicken costs 50% less than it did three decades ago, after adjustment for inflation. One reason for the low prices is that fowl production is concentrated in poor rural areas of the South...
...different now--presidential candidates have to provide their own ceremonial trappings. If Elvis were still alive, George Bush wouldn't have had to eat pork rinds in 1988. If Elvis had lived, Michael Dukakis might be president. Sure, his eyebrows look funny, and tank helmets don't fit him, but there was a time when this stuff didn't matter...
...Doctors debacle last February. Treasurer Michael P. Beys '94 and his friends held a private, for-profit, off-campus party with the rock group. With Heinicke's support, Beys pushed through a resolution to lend the U.C.'s name and $20 of its money to promote the event. Personal pork barrels shouldn't be the business of the U.C. Duncan, for one, voted against the measure...
...forests, deep and dangerous as they were, also defined existence. Wood kindled forges and kept alive the hearths of the mud-and-thatch huts of the serfs. Peasants fattened their hogs on forest acorns (pork was crucial to basic subsistence in the cold of winter), and wild berries helped supplement the meager diet. In a world without sugar, honey from forest swarms provided the only sweetness for food or drink. The pleasures of the serfs were few and simple: earthy lovemaking and occasional dances and fests...