Word: bleu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author Rombauer, widowed since her husband's death in 1930, became a celebrity of sorts. Fan mail, at the rate of 2,000 letters a day, streamed into her St. Louis home; the Cordon Bleu and London's Flower School brought out an English edition of The Joy of Cooking; the story goes that an eloping bride sent her family a cable-AM MARRIED. ORDER ANNOUNCEMENTS. SEND ME ROMBAUER COOKBOOK AT ONCE...
...London is the dream of any true gourmet. Ambassador Jean Chauvel's chef is one of the world's great cooks. A tiny (5 ft.) Tonkinese, Bui Van Han, 50, has presided over the Chauvel kitchen for 22 years, is a graduate of Paris' famed Cordon Bleu school, a master of haute cuisine. In the posts where he has cooked for the Chauvels-Paris, Bern, New York -the mere memory of his Pauppiette de Sole à la Richelieu or Cotelettes de Pigeone à l'Espagnole is enough to make taste buds quiver and eyes grow moist...
...interests range far beyond science and business. His love for popular music led him to found the Fairchild Recording Equipment Corp., a high-quality manufacturer of sound reproduction products. His enthusiasms include architecture (he helped design his own house), cooking (he studied at Paris' Cordon Bleu cooking school), jazz (he plays a competent hot piano), dancing, philosophy, tennis and-since he is one of Manhattan's most eligible bachelors-beautiful women. Almost anything can touch off a new interest: irritated one day at the way his matches blew out in the wind while he tried to light...