Word: alsatian
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...become famous, it had to have a short name without the word restaurant in it," he says, explaining that he finally chose Lutece from the ancient name for Paris, Lutetia. When he was making his | plans he heard of Soltner, then the chef at Chez Hansi, an Alsatian brasserie in Paris. Surmain went over, tasted Soltner's food and offered him a job with the promise of a partnership if they succeeded. "It sounded like a crazy idea, but I thought that at least I'd learn English," says Soltner. "We were a good team, the two Andres," Surmain recalls...
Would Soltner ever want to do anything else? "What would I do if I sold Lutece?" he asks almost rhetorically. "I would love to have a little Alsatian restaurant where I do the cooking of my childhood, but really it would be silly. If I am going to have a restaurant, it might as well be Lutece. But maybe someday I would love to work with young people...
...native Normandy. There she catches up on what she calls "real" apple cider and dishes her sister-in-law prepares with rabbit and lamb. Do the Soltners ever argue about the relative superiority of their regional kitchens? "That was settled long ago. We decided that the best food is Alsatian," says the husband. Soltner is "bien attache," say relatives, well attached to family, food, and language. "He has never lost this sense of his roots," brother-in-law Pierre notes...
...Beard had wide and eclectic preferences in foods, ranging from caviar to Cheerios, from elegant Madeira sauces to marshmallows, from French quenelles de brochet to New England codfish cakes. He had a special liking for pork, sausages and sauerkraut, a combination he loved equally in the form of an Alsatian choucroute garnie or a hot dog topped with kraut at a streetcorner stand...
...director-producer-actor-author, who is 81, was raised to be a wanderer; his mother was Welsh-Irish, and his father was an Alsatian Jew who was an international speculator. John Houseman spoke four languages as a child, was educated as a privileged Englishman, won an Oxford scholarship in modern languages, but went instead to Argentina to live among gauchos, returned to London, and learned the international grain trade. He was on the point of becoming wealthy as a grain speculator in the U.S. when the Crash of '29 bankrupted his company. His entry into the performing arts occurred...