Food: Most of Food

Most Favored Vegetable No need to limit yourself to a red from Colorado or one of Idaho's browns. What about Yukon Gold? Or Peruvian purple? We're talking serious potato now -- the bulked-out veggie that conquered the culinary world in 1990. At power luncheries, a favorite appetizer of the glitterati was a spare baked potato. But you could get it boiled, fried, duchessed and, most of all, mashed.

Best Food on the Road Not so long ago, most U.S. hotel meals seemed designed to horrify any gourmet. But in 1990 the top-rated hotels in the first Zagat U.S. Travel Survey of...

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