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...management from the mistakes of U.S. multinationals. "Americans tended to look at Europe as a single market, but that is an oversimplification," he says. "When it comes to food, every market has totally different tastes." He tells French cheesemakers to forget about trying to sell their Camembert and Pont-l'Evêque in Britain, and learn how to make the Cheddars and Stiltons favored by British palates. Goldsmith also avoids what he sees as the pitfall of American-style conglomeration by keeping the bulk of his expansion in the food business. Lately he has been adding...
...fact, Colas's provisions for the trip included a variety of French delicacies; farmers from his native Normandy provided Camembert, Pont l'Evêque and Livarot cheeses, pâté, tripe à la mode de Caen and a supply of Calvados. Even so, the voyage was no pleasure cruise. Pen Duick's living quarters are so cramped that even 5-ft. 6-in. Colas had to cook almost doubled up over a low stove. But that was a small, familiar drawback. Colas previously sailed Pen Duick singlehanded from Mauritius around the Cape of Good Hope...
Radar Screen. For wearers and spectators alike, the nude look presents certain problems. "If you run while wearing see-throughs," says Penelope Tree, "you have to be careful. You could overflow like warm Camembert cheese." There are the oglers, against whom Mrs. Scull protects herself by taking off her glasses: "That way, being nearsighted, I can't see people's reactions." And there are those for whom ogling is not enough. Photographer Susan Greenburg-Wood wore her first see-through to a Lincoln Center benefit in Manhattan; all was well until intermission, when suddenly, she recalls, "one woman...
...South Vietnamese delegation coming to the Paris peace talks would like the name of a good little bistro where the Bordeaux wine and the Camembert cheese are supportables, they could always ask the Viet Cong. No sooner had Lyndon Johnson announced the bombing halt last month than representatives of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong, descended on Paris proclaiming their status as "equal partner" with the U.S., the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese. While the South Vietnamese dithered over whether to attend the talks, the Front's representatives in Paris quickly...
...Miami's restaurants and found their cuisine good for laughs but not for digestion. Affronting his gourmet tastes at one restaurant was a mousse au chocolat crowned with whipped cream and as a final insult, perhaps, a maraschino cherry. At another establishment, Claiborne complained that a wedge of Camembert cheese had been served cold. The waiter offered to "run it under the broiler." "Now I ask you," wrote the exasperated critic, "isn't that worth the price of the meal...