Word: chasseurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal touch drew the attention of influential customers. During the siege of Paris in 1871, food was so scarce that the city zoo slaughtered its two elephants, of which Voisin's got the trunks. Thanks partly to the style with which Ritz served them, trompe sauce chasseur became a mouth-watering success...
...Under Chairman Harry Salmon, 65, son of the original Barnett, the 18 directors are each responsible for one part of the business. Kitchens and cooking, for example, are in charge of 41-year-old Leonard Gluckstein. He accidentally developed Frood in 1941 when he tried to can a chicken chasseur and, failing, put it in a refrigerator. When he tasted it weeks later, he knew he had something. He quietly tested Frood in Lyons restaurants and U.S. Army messhalls during...
Franck: Psyché & Le Chasseur Maudit (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Désiré Defauw conducting; Victor, 8 sides). In Psyché, Franck characteristically overlaid a classic pagan myth with some of his own emotional religiosity. Its companion tone poem, Le Chasseur, based on Teutonic myth, does not come off so well. Performance: excellent...
...most elegant bistro in Europe, the gaudiest symbol of the mauve decadence. Its décor was the most glittery, its women the most ravishing, its top-drawer scandals the most toothsome. No Manhattan nightclub captain was ever so suave or tactful as Maxim's famed, monocled Chasseur Gérard, who, with a handy grasp of the Almanach de Gotha unsurpassed by any dowager in Europe, discreetly arranged introductions between the world's great ones and Maxim's incomparable ladies of the evening...
Tabuteau can usually forget his troubles by eating. A gourmet of parts, he has come to the conclusion that there is no U.S. restaurant which can provide him with a decent meal. "If I want something good to eat," says he, "I cook it myself." He bathes his Poulet Chasseur and Boeuf aux Champignons in vintage wines. One product of this hobby is chronic gout...