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...California jamboree, attended by 15,000 people at the site of an old gold mine 90 miles north of Los Angeles, chili heads, as fanciers call themselves, stirred up chile con possum, rabbit, chicken, pork, rattlesnake, ham hocks, jerky and Portuguese sausage. An Arizona chef used fillet of road runner; the Tennessee champion boasted of his raccoon. The Hawaiian contingent made its stock (it said) from a "tired Samoan fighting cock." Californian and Texan experts used some 40 varieties of chili peppers, ranging from the relatively mild Big Jim to a Tahitian product that would blow...
Meatless dishes, which include poultry, fish and eggs, are offered at every meal as alternatives to red meat and pork selections...
From wooden forks, his business metastasizes wildly through the acquisition of bankrupt companies. By making salvaged assets jump through tax loopholes, the juvenile tycoon gains control of a brewery, a film studio, an untold quantity of frozen pork bellies, an entire New England mill town, a factory that manufactures player-piano rolls and condoms, and much more...
...with the embarrassment of proud men who do not want to seem too visibly interested in a visiting celebrity. Later, at a gathering of pensioners, Owen is introduced to say a brief word. "Certainly a brief word," he says. "I wouldn't want to keep you from your pork pies...
...series of coalition Cabinets involving Republicans, Social Democrats and Socialists. The small reformist Republican Party is particularly interested in fiscal conservatism. The Social Democrats are vigorously anti-Communist and pro-Europe. The Socialists are continually torn between an ideological affinity with the Communists, their pro-Western loyalties and pork-barrel reasons for remaining in government...