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...another media-hyped Dr. Feelgood. But in France, the former pharmaceutical-company executive has made a mint telling Gallic gourmands what they want to hear. His empire, dubbed "La Galaxie Montignac," is an $11 million-a-year business with a chain of food boutiques, a vineyard producing Chateau Michel Montignac Bordeaux, a mail-order firm selling Montignac foie gras and Montignac chocolate, a quarterly magazine, an Institute of Vitality and Nutrition through which 350 physicians prescribe his method, and a company offering one- day diet seminars for corporate executives at $420 a head. Last October, Montignac opened a 240-seat...
...ounces of Beluga caviar (Table water crackers, $3 per box), or 98.33 ounces of fois gras pate with truffles, or prepare something for yourself with 20 French truffles ($50 per 1-oz. truffle). Wash it all down with the popular $700-per-bottle special-order Chateau Petrus 1985 (red), all from Cardullo's, 6 Brattle Street...
...princess, once known for punk and profligacy, is offering a 4,000-lot array of paintings, jewelry, silver, furniture, liveried uniforms and ball gowns, as well as 75,000 bottles of vintage wine. Bidders can go home with anything from a peanut bowl ($18) to six magnums of 1949 Chateau Lafite Pauillac Premier Cru | Class ($4,400). After the self-described "poor little thing" was asked by Sotheby's to include "something typical of me," two of Gloria's four Harley- Davidson motorcycles were put in the mix. It's a wonder anything is left in those 500 rooms...
After last month's big quakes, Los Angeles wine connoisseur Dennis Overstreet realized that the next one might demolish his cellars. Party! Two dozen friends helped him consume a six-liter 1982 Chateau Petrus (value: $9,000). Says he: "And we didn't have to drink it from a sponge...
...Texas businessman bought two vacation homes in Bermuda, one for himself, one for his son. He hired a local firm to add swimming pools, verandas and air conditioning to both houses. Perot also set about finding a way to dock his 68-ft. cabin cruiser, the Chateau Margaux, at his doorstep...