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- <text id=89TT1458>
- <title>
- June 05, 1989: Business Notes:Perestroika
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 05, 1989 People Power:Beijing-Moscow
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- PERESTROIKA
- Hottest Loaf In Town
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Bloomingdale's takes pride in introducing chic fashions to
- trend-hungry New Yorkers, so it seemed perfectly appropriate
- that the department store was the first in town to sell the
- latest product of perestroika: imported Soviet rye bread, hot
- off the flight from Moscow. Bloomingdale's last week was selling
- the two-pound loaves (price: $6) at the rate of 30 an hour.
- </p>
- <p> Two types were offered: Rjanog, a sour rye, and Borodinsky,
- a sweeter bread flavored with coriander. The so-called peace
- bread was also being offered to customers at the posh
- Waldorf-Astoria hotel and the Russian Tea Room. U.S.
- entrepreneur Fred Kayden arranged the imports after 7 1/2 months
- of negotiations with Soviet officials and a "perestroika
- entrepreneur" in Moscow. But Kayden may not have a black-bread
- monopoly for long. Zaro's Bread Basket, a New York City bakery
- chain, plans to start selling imported Soviet bread for $5 a
- loaf. Would Muscovites pay that kind of price for Wonder bread?
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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