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...many cooks make judging difficult when the time comes to hand out annual Tastemaker awards for the best U.S. cookbook. This year, after sifting through 92 entries, the judges pared the list to a prestigious few, including Food Writers Craig Claiborne and James Beard, as well as Jacques Pépin, 44, onetime chef for Charles de Gaulle. Pépin's book, La Methode, won the grand prize. Gathering to receive their awards, the three pitched into a mélange of asparagus, zucchini, cauliflower, carrots, tomatoes, eggs and rack of baby lamb. What was it such eminent...
...wide cross-section of backgrounds and motives for being there, including left-leaning democrats, new-left radicals from the 1960's (Mario Savio, founder of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley--the group which kicked off student protests in the '60's--was there, with graying hair and beard), radical teminists, American Indians, gays, and Gray Panthers...
...Nazi persecution; later he aided the postwar resettlement of many Hasidic Jews, whose men wear broad-brimmed black hats, grow their sideburns into long curls and never shave, heeding the biblical injunction: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall thou mar the corners of thy beard...
Dressed in Afghan clothes and with an eleven-day growth of beard covering his $8 million face, he looked a little like a young extra in a Dannon yogurt commercial. But with pluck, luck and a crew of four, Dan Rather risked not only his life but the ulcers of CBS executives to bring back some of the first detailed film accounts of the fighting between Afghan rebels and Soviet soldiers for a 27-minute segment of 60 Minutes. Rather's whispered report from a darkened mountain ledge sounded like a cross between one of Edward R. Murrow...
...every motorist topping the hill at Swatara and heading south on Route 283. The fields surrounding the neat farmhouses on either side of the road are as brown as they always are in March and covered with a stubble that suggests a two-day growth of beard. Middletown, a community of 11,000 whose residents farm, work at the Fruehauf factory, or teach at the local state university campus, looks as scrubbed and businesslike as ever...