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...cuisine classique in France is that it is run-efficiently-by an Englishwoman, Anne Willan-and it is the first full-scale school to offer lessons in English as well as French. Without mincing any mots, the well-financed academy has set out to challenge the haughty Cordon Bleu, the 80-year-old citadel of French culinary tradition that has become a synonym for distinguished cookery...
Despite the fact that the renowned St. Georges Hotel has had only a handful of guests for the past several weeks, its chef hewed to his cordon bleu standards to the last. In the restaurant, thoughtfully shifted back into the most protected area of the hotel because of snipers, service and cuisine merited the usual three stars. Scampi, saumon fumé, salade Niçoise-almost the full menu was available. On Monday U.S. Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley was at one table, Christian Moderate Leader Ramond Edde near by at another. Shortly after 3, as Edde was finishing his coffee...
...Grendel's offers much, much more than just delicious salads. In fact, their menu may boast more items than any similiar Square restaurant. In addition to such mainstays of the menu as delicious soups, cheese fondue and veal cordon bleu, the chef makes one's choice difficult by offering a dozen or so other Middle Eastern, European, and seafood daily specials. Most dinner dishes go for around $4, and they include rice and (unfortunately usually overcooked) vegetables...
...target of a plot to land him in an American jail, De Louette is certainly making the best of his confinement. He has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges, and passes his time introducing the keepers of the Somerset County, N.J., jail to the delights of cordon bleu cuisine. His French soups and meats periodically turn up at the guards' tables, with Friday's specialite-clam chowder-a much-anticipated luxury for his jailers. To them, he is a special inmate. Says one deputy: "Any other prisoner we call a crook, but Roger we call the chef...
...normal, amiable chaos of their early life together. They have a nine-room apartment overlooking Manhattan's Central Park ("Isaac Stern always says he lives on top of Beverly Sills, because he's on a floor above us"). There they entertain (Peter is a graduate of the Cordon Bleu cooking school), play bridge (Peter is a tournament champion) or just relax (Beverly can do a crossword puzzle in 20 minutes...