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...campaigns against SST appropriations. He has filibustered and conducted hearings, hammering away in a personal crusade against the "perfectly trivial purpose of developing an SST, seeing how rapidly we can already fly people overseas." It was the kind of tenacity that has made Proxmire the bane of defense contractors, pork-barreling colleagues and consumer frauds...
...Florida product costs 35? each, twice the price of Mediterranean fruit. Among the most popular U.S. foods are innards like liver, hearts and kidneys. Europeans regard them as delicacies, particularly the cheap young American variety, and import $40 million worth a year. The French transform some of the pork liver into high-priced páté-and sell it back...
Volume Two is an unqualifiedly phenomenal book, and a worthy successor to Volume One. The book is divided into seven sections. Meat, chicken, and vegetables are covered in three chapters; a discussion of soups and desserts frames the volume; and special chapters on charcuterie (sausages, salted pork and goose, pates and terrines) and on baked items make the book especially well-rounded...
...Saigon's "Soul Kitchen" black GI's greet each other over spareribs, pork chops, chittlins, grits and cornbread with more than 57 varieties of black power handshakes that may end with vowing to die for your comrade by crossing the chest Roman legion style...
...money and material aid to candidates and groups... either through covert means or openly through the distribution of 'pork-barrel' projects...