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Friday, May 4, 1984/The Battalion/Page 15 " K, ew Orleans busy cooking picy food for World’s Fair able 'N n ' tet ^ ® >ress I nternat * ona ^ Signing Jew ORLEANS — Locals Hht find themselves running the nearest bottle of Ta- o, but just about everyone should discover a barrage treasonably hot Louisiana tla- at the 1984 World’s Fair ent Spoifay 12-Nov. 11. semesiti! At a pre-opening lasting 3 speak taged by 24 of the Fair’s 75 id and beverage conces aires, compromises on spic- s seemed the only signifi- step away from authentic- iThat is a natural, if unfortu- side effect in trying to seas many as 11 million vis- , many of whose tolerance e, 208 For things like cayenne and jala- plicalion eno is unknown. Itill, a visitor with no time to ie things away from the fair ggio interest in community res- luirants can gel a pretty good Q||jea of what Creole and Cajun Ipikiiigare all about. , In light of Louisiana’s repu- for fine food, it’s only I Vrvlatuial its first world exposition lOG years should emphasize |<)n Ms et |ibie. egional fare is represented the 82-acre site by every- g from crawfish to red ^is to meat pies, ieveral foreign participants will serve exotic examples of na tive cuisines. A good place to start learning about the state’s cuisine is the Crawfish House, a re-creation of an Acadian home from southwest Louisiana. Selections include crawfish in bisque, etouffee, pie and several other variations. A fairgrounds concession of the Gumbo Shop, an estab lished New Orleans restaurant, will feature seafood and chicken versions of the famous soup, along with ham and sau sage jambalaya, shrimp creole and alligator sauce piquante. An even more back-to-basics menu is at the Hot Boudin Co., which will offer smoked sau sage, cracklins, hogshead cheese and, of course, the spicy Cajun sausage that gives the place its name. A visit to Mrs. Wheat’s Kitchen should not be missed. It is one of the few food outlets anywhere celebrating the largely French-less northern half of Louisiana, and because its spicy meat pies from the town of Natchitoches are deep- fried delights. Reunion Hall, a lively ven ture built by and around jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain, will serve food and drink as accom paniment to non-stop music. Creole and Cajun specialties are offered in three upscale menus — jazz brunch, church lunch and big band dinner. Other packages of music, food and drink will be served in the revitalized Federal Fiber Mills building. Jed’s Lookout will set out daily buffets of local specialties, while the Miller Beer Garden will serve high- quality German selections to the sound of an oompah band. A handful of places will blend local eating habits with broader American favorites. Crescent City International will have specialty hot dogs, while Three Lil Pigs will feature “po’ boys” — the long French bread sandwiches similar to heros or submarines found elsewhere. The Uptown Square Winery will supply fairgoers with gour met box lunches, rich pates, stuffed croissants, fresh quiches and wine by the glass. Two minority-owned busi nesses will introduce fair-goers to the vast contributions by blacks to local cuisine. The Sea food Warehouse will feature shrimp, crabs, oysters and fish, while Golden and Golden will spotlight soul food items like red beans and rice, barbecued ribs, collard greens and water melon. Several quirky local busi nesses will show their wares. Dr. Bananas, for example, hopes to cash in on the summer heat with frozen fruit on a stick, while Let’s Make a Daiquiri will serve both alcoholic and non-al coholic versions of the rum- based cocktail. Evans Creole Candy will be represented with its famous pralines — addictive candies made with brown sugar and pe cans. Brown’s Velvet Dairy will have ice cream kiosks all over the fair site. Since this is a world’s fair, there is a broad selection of for eign cooking. For example: • The Italian Village, backed by members of New Orleans’ large Italian community, re-cre ates a Venetian piazza, com plete with fresh pasta, pizza, pastries, espresso and cappu- cino. • The India Delhi, an out growth of the city’s first Indian restaurant, will serve such dishes as tandoori chicken, chicken curry and vegetable samosas. • Sebastian’s will offer the same sort of crash course in the Philippines. rug war blamed for homicides .he boik attoriw l was flUnited Press International ve the I iinaccajjAN ANTONIO — A drug Texasbetween local dealers and eralto ^bans driven out of Florida g°veni:|i{iiied in two recent homi- des and could lead to more the bojihs as both groups seek to lorneyBrol the drug trade on the iuly-boijTs westside, police said er Roy hiirsday. is soitWyst December, a Cuban was herwiseyot on a westside street known arils heroin sales and his body lotion, as taken to Kendall County used to jid burned. constittH The San Antonio Light Thursday quoted an unidenti fied police officer as saying an anonymous tip led authorities to believe the Cuban was the first casualty in a new drug war. Another man, a known her oin user, was shot and killed in the same area last weekend by a gunman firing from a passing car. Police said they believed Cubans were responsible for the second slaying, which may have been a reprisal. Capt. Dennis Vickery, head of the Department of Public Safety’s narcotics office in San Antonio, said some Cuban drug dealers have made the city their new headquarters. “We’re seeing a trend in it be cause of the pressures put on them in Florida,” he said. He said also that Texas has become attractive to drug deal ers because of its coastline and remote inland regions with about 700 available landing strips. International drug trad ers are also working in Austin and Houston, he said. Vickery said San Antonio is prime territory for traffickers still working out of Florida and selling to markets on the West Coast. San Antonio police were re luctant to discuss the homicides openly, but several officers said privately that more people will probably die before one group emerges victorious in the city’s drug war. 1 and so Id undi it proii^ Iding tli y was businc islructio!| lops find man with 60 illegal weapons his ar alleged tionalityi his sir •e left , John Amerii foreign lack of h 1” and • most paid ig abouif ’ii said i anylhN - except | lid. ly disgff United Press International S CRUCES, N.M. — A Cruces man was jailed |rsday after police raided onie and found what they was an arsenal of illegal ons. illiam Larry Walker, 39, held in the Dona Ana ity Jail under a $25,000 |alker was charged with sell- illegal weapons to under- ver agents from the U.S. Al- hol, Tobacco and Firearms ncy, the Las Cruces Police artmeni ami the Dona Ana ill’s Department, alkyr appeared before a S.| Magistrate in Las Cruces two counts of possession of illegal firearms and two counts of illegally selling the weapons, Robert Valadez, agent in charge of the firearms agency office in El Paso, said. Valadez said undercover agents purchased a machine gun and hand grenades from Walker on Wednesday. In a search of Walker’s two Las Cruces residences, officers from the Las Cruces Police De- : partmeni and the Albuquerque Police Department Bomb Squad discovered GO illegal firearms, including silencers, short-bar reled rifles, 20 homemade hand grenades, and approximately 10,000 rounds of ammunition, Valadez said. The officers also discovered an undisclosed amount of nar cotics, he said. “We anticipate additional federal charges, and the Las Cruces police will probably file charges,” Valadez said. He said officers have not yet learned whether the weapons were for sale in the Las Cruces area or were intended for sale south of the border. r. 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