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- <text id=91TT2103>
- <title>
- Sep. 23, 1991: Business Notes:Inventions
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- INVENTIONS
- Plat Du Jour
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The day may come when gourmands ordering the blue-plate
- special at their favorite restaurant will be served...a plate.
- An enterprising Asian manufacturer, the Taiwan Sugu Co., last week
- launched a line of plates and bowls that not only hold food but
- are food. Fashioned from wheat, they resemble standard disposable
- dinnerware right down to a glossy finish. What seems to be the
- world's first edible table setting could be the ultimate in
- biodegradability--if humans don't consume their cutlery and
- plates, wildlife is likely to finish the job. Introduction in
- American fast-food restaurants is anticipated in perhaps six
- months.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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