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...kitchen to assemble a total woman's cookbook for publication next spring. Her recipes lean heavily on their titles (Heavenly Peach Pie, Boudoir Cheesecake), and her menus on their scenarios. Thus the You Tiger You meal features a hearty beef Stroganoff and a Reconcile Feast includes stuffed pork chops and coconut cream pie. "It's so important," she insists, "to furnish men happy moments at mealtime." Her husband Charlie takes a judicious view of total cookery. "All things being equal," he says, "I'd rather have a nice meal than not have...
President Carter's blast against the Public Works Bill as a "pork barrel" appropriation [Oct. 16] was dead wrong...
...aside 5% of each year's tax revenues for a reserve against debt. Proponents call the reserve, which would amount to about $63 million this year, a rainy-day fund, while opponents regard it as a slush fund that could be used by spendthrift legislators to underwrite pork-barrel public works projects. The proposition's chances are rated as a tossup...
...flavor, texture and color. Each begins like an opera, with an enticing overture leading ineluctably on toward the major arias. Because they lack space for pasturage, the central Chinese south of the Yellow River do not eat much beef or lamb. Most specialties are based on chicken, duck, pork, bountiful vegetables and a huge variety of fresh-and saltwater fish and shellfish. It is basically a cuisine of survival, in which every last conceivably usable ingredient goes into the pot. How about smoked ducks' tongues? Fish eyes and spiced chicken feet? Wine-braised camel's hump, a delicacy...
...Canton, the epicurean epicenter, a banquet mounts to such glories as Phoenix Meets Dragon hi Brilliant Courtyard - a spicy consummation of chicken breasts (symbol of femininity) and ham (for masculinity) - and a casserole of clear-simmered Lions' Heads; lacking lionburger, they consist of leonine pork meatballs in a gingery sauce. Some dishes, such as egg fu yung and fried rice, are familiar to Americans, since at least 90% of all Chinese food served in the U.S. is based on Cantonese recipes. But the real meal in China - Peking duck, for example - could not be mistaken for one in Chinatown...