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short of food. More than one travel writer not- ed, too, that waiters might pick used napkins up from the floor, chairs, or table, and quickly press them before reusing them, cleanest side up of course; or merely flipped and reused tablecloths. One account has an unidentified perpetrator — a competitor, perhaps? — tam- pering with a concessionaire’s lettuce and tomato salad by substituting a piece of soap carved in a likeness of the tomato. While some of these practices may have occurred on board America’s long-distance intercity trains, they were apparently rare enough, or done with enough secrecy, to have gone unreported. And it should be noted too that the unsa-
vory practices noted here were reported in earlier eras, not on today’s Russian Railway trains or the luxury trains that ply this route. Finally, even today, travelers rely on plat-
form vendors as a source of food, said offerings often being the superior fare. One might wish this was the case on some trains on Amtrak’s schedule. (Note: Generally, all of Amtrak’s intercity trains are subject to more than one state’s food safety requirements, as well as to federal food safety reuirements, because they are interstate operations.). A Recipe: Early in our conversation, Sha-
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