Word: chef
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henri's narrative is succulent with descriptions of good things to eat and how to make them even better. He appends 30 pages of recipes which cannot be read aloud without frequent swallows. A master chef in the great French tradition, Henri thinks no culinary detail too homely to be treated artistically. Typical is his precept to neophyte waiters: "Carve a ham as if you were shaving the face of a friend." Tall, white-haired (he is 54), of stately port and bonhomous mien, Henri admits he is pretty well done, but he is in no hurry to be taken...
...Chef Rufus Flint, who is sane, took a taste of the hard sauce, and dumped it. He made a new batch and served it to the hospital employes. Thirteen took sick with violent stomach aches...
...President Rodriguez of Mexico; Admiral Ismael Galindez of Argentina; Juan Leguia, son of the late president of Peru; Brig. General Juan F. Azcarate Pino, military attaché of the Mexican Embassy at Washington; an unnamed Turkish Minister of Marine; Comptroller General Lopez of Bolivia; an unnamed chef de cabinet of Brazil; an assorted handful of Chinese war lords. The inferences of the correspondence was that almost all of these foreign statesmen had accepted bribes as a quid pro quo in U. S. armament sales abroad. As unofficial protests piled up at the State Department, Secretary Hull attempted to pass them...
Died. Jules L. Alciatore, 70, chef and proprietor of Antoine's New Orleans' most famed restaurant; after long illness; in New Orleans. Once a year he closed his restaurant, went to France to find new recipes. His Oysters Rockefeller were so named because he knew "no richer name for their richness." Overindulgence in his café brûlo diabolique (coffee poured into a silver goblet of flaming spices and brandy) sent O. Henry to a bed from which he never rose. In his restaurant he permitted no smoking or coffee until after meals...
...very long chain of luck that gave $150,000 to a Bronx, N. Y. restaurant chef named William Meringer. He had a wonderful recipe for hasenpfeffer. An anonymous patron had a ticket in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes on Golden Miller. The patron went to the restaurant, ordered hasenpfeffer, ate three plates of it, called in Chef Meringer and gave him his ticket. Golden Miller won the Grand National (TIME, April...