Word: boeuf
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...Pavilion restaurant whenever he came to Manhattan. When he did so, recalled an aide to the eatery's famed owner, "M. Soule saw to it that there was a bottle of Romance Conti at his table. Two of his favorite dishes are poulet mascotte and filet tie boeuf pe-rigourdinc." And so in Soule's will, filed for probate in Manhattan-and leaving the bulk of his estate of more than $1,000,000, including proceeds from the eventual sale of Le Pavilion and his newer Cote Basque, to his widow Olga and sister Madeleine-he bequeathed...
While 6,500 members queued up to sip interprandial Scotch and sup on cafeteria boeuf bourguignon, Director James J. Rorimer showed off a colonnaded Spanish Renaissance patio, donated by the late, former Met president George Blumenthal, and the new Thomas J. Watson library, whose 155,000 volumes make it the largest art-literature stack in the Western Hemisphere. Topping off his week, Rorimer received the city's Medallion of Honor from Mayor Wagner...
...nevertheless enraged at the new order. "French culinary art is being suffocated by government intervention," said a Parisian restaurateur. Another suggested that there are ways to get around the order: "You want to increase the price of tournedos? All you have to do is christen it 'Cote de Boeuf Henri IV' and the trick is done...
...merchants, Sachs adopted the complete works of the Marquis de Sade as "the bible of my early youth." Armed with that perverse testament, he descended on Paris intent on a literary career. It was a time, Sachs recalls, when young men like himself sat on bar stools at Le Boeuf sur le Toit eying the great-Picasso, Cocteau, Milhaud, Satie, Radiguet-like "some Chinese under the Empire viewing the Emperor's sacred Body." Sachs got to know most of the sacred bodies. Cocteau gave him some secretarial work to do, and he repaid his benefactor by painting...
...people whose stomachs are majoring in English, there is Linda Wolfe's The Literary Gourmet, which contains carefully researched and ably presented recipes for meals that occur in literature, such as the bake meat pies that Geoffrey Chaucer's franklin loved and the boeuf en daube that was the special triumph of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse-"It was rich; it was tender; it was perfectly cooked...