Word: caking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fantastic parties are a Khashoggi signature. Christmas was a simple tea compared with his 50th-birthday fete in 1985, at which he entertained more than 400 guests at a three-day extravaganza. His birthday cake, a model of Louis XIV's coronation crown, was created by a chef who was flown to the Louvre to study the original. Khashoggi's parties also take place in his 30,000-sq.-ft. quarters incorporating the 46th and 47th floors of the Olympic Towers in Manhattan. Created out of 16 separate apartments, the abode has a pool that overlooks the spires...
...studies done by an artist famous for large, symbolic canvases. Absent are the extended metaphors that gave form to her earlier novels. The protagonist of An Edible Woman, for example, feels so cannibalized by the people in her life that she serves her fiance a bride made of sponge cake and icing, then flees from the altar. Gone too is Atwood's allegorizing. In last year's The Handmaid's Tale she offered a vision of America transformed into a Fundamentalist Christian theocracy...
...Them Eat Cake" Quote...
...Cream. Even though it may be snowing outside, no one can resist ice cream. Especially when it's in the form of an ice-cream cake from one of the many parlours in the Square. Emack & Bolio's (1310 Mass. Ave.) pies range from $8.95 to $17.95, while Steve's (31 Church) $8.95 concoctions serve between five...
...goat cheese, cold pasta and dangerously raw salmon. Nevertheless, this erratic chef has a talent for simple dishes, among them lobster gazpacho, warm duck salad with turnip pancake, chopped lamb steak au poivre, T-bone steak cowboy style, a luscious warm vegetable stew and a fragrant polenta pound cake with Madeira cream...