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...reading and cooking from a large pile of the newest cookbooks for the past several months, full of wonder at the variety and sophistication of modern American cookery. That is all the more remarkable because only a decade or so ago, most of the country was stuck in the pot-roast-and-mashed- potato syndrome. This new crop of cookbooks will tell you everything from how to clean raw abalone to how to prepare a really good, well, pot roast with mashed potatoes, one of my favorites. The cookbooks incorporate all the flavors and delicacy of the new American cuisine...
...about pot roast? The comprehensive 44-page index says "pot roast pasta." Huh? Yes, you make this pot roast that sounds delicious, but then you chop it all up and, with its juices, spoon it over a pound of penne or pappardelle. The old pot roast is now actually a stracotto. How modern can you get? You wouldn't want the mashed spuds if you've got the pasta, but let's check anyway. Three listings: the basic one, with sour cream; one that has a whole head of cooked garlic (yum!); and one that is half potatoes and half...
...comparison, the 1964 version of Joy of Cooking has one straightforward recipe for pot roast and one for mashed potatoes. But Joy is an amusing cultural icon, atwitter with the new availability of frozen food and the wonders of the blender. It is stern and didactic in tone, urging its female readers on to culinary excellence: "You will eat at the hour of your choice . . . And you will regain the priceless private joy of family living, dining and sharing...
...does none of these things. In her tight black stretch pants she recklessly sleds down the hill with the baby and feeds him Frosted Flakes when the pot roast burns. She gets all dreamy eyed when she dances around the living room to her Elvis records. No one speaks to her at PTA meetings or buys her Tupperware -- except the husbands, who further enrage their wives by giving it to them on their birthdays. The janitor throws out her oversweet, marshmallow-laden offering to the bake sale...
...combat troops returned home -- though some have apparently returned to bolster the faltering Cambodian army. As for Goal No. 2, it never made sense for Washington to support a three-part coalition that included the Khmer Rouge while decrying the possible return to power of Pol Pot's forces. With last week's unequivocal shift away from the Khmer Rouge, the U.S. Administration finally brought strategy and policy into line on Goal No. 2, paving the way for movement on Goal...