Word: bleu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This long-experienced camp cook would like to know the Dulles' magic secret of producing Cordon Bleu menus in such "Thoreau-going" surroundings. A six-course dinner to please the most discriminating gourmet bubbles away on the old-fashioned stove in the time it takes me to open a can of pork and beans. If F. & J. can clean up the mess afterward-unaided by plumbing or electricity-the mess of the Middle East is in safe and efficient hands...
Milwaukee-born Actor Alfred Lunt, 64, proud holder of a diploma from Paris' Cordon Bleu cooking school, discussed his newly acquired souffle secrets with the New York Times: "Egg whites are beaten by hand with a wire whisk or not at all. You beat and beat. Of course, you may drop dead in the end, but no matter. I don't understand why American cookbooks state 'beat until stiff but still moist.' That's nonsense. We beat the daylights out of them and turn out the finest souffles you've ever tasted...
...Manhattan at the Museum of Modern Art's Rockefeller Guest House. Given his first print, Picasso's Dance of Salome, by his father when he was a 13-year-old schoolboy in Switzerland, he bought 19th century French Realist Gustave Courbet's Château Bleu six months after graduating from Yale. Prosperous from his family yarn business, he has steadily bought works by 20th century French, German and American artists. His house in suburban Greenwich, Conn, is filled to the bathroom walls, and the lawn has a skyward-staring, 5½-ft. bronze, The Manipulator...
...picture must have given many a page-flipper pause. Spread across two pages of the Paris weekly Elle were the faces of 70 women. At first glance they might have been graduates of the Cordon Bleu cookery school, characters in a police line-èup, culture seekers at the Sorbonne, or simply guests at an unaccountably manless cocktail party. The truth was much more improbable. They were working novelists...
...Government must provide incentives for capital by such changes as a reduction in the corporate tax rate on foreign earnings. In calling for tariff reductions, Randall points out how high tariffs can transfer burdens from one part of the economy to another. When the U.S. banned imports of Danish bleu cheese, for example, the Danes banned U.S. coal (see below), thus transferred Wisconsin's problem to West Virginia...