Word: chef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here & there, in the thick of the battle, police glimpsed a huge, black Hotchkiss sedan with an outsize radio aerial. At 10 p.m. they stopped the car and ordered out its occupants. They turned out to be National Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, 56, a pudgy onetime pastry chef who is now acting chief of the French Communist Party (while Chief Maurice Thorez convalesces on the Black Sea), his wife Gilberte, a burly bodyguard, a chauffeur-and two dead pigeons. Police believed the birds were homing pigeons hastily killed. Mme. Duclos insisted that they were the gift of a friend-for stewing...
...Sarasota. The guests are warmed up in the car's pale green drawing room with North's own brand of Old-Fashioneds, then the party moves to the dining room, which is dominated by a large mural of Lady Godiva setting out on her ride. A French chef produces a four-or five-course meal (with three vintage wines), and the meal is rounded out with liqueurs. Towards midnight the party moves off to the hotel North owns in Sarasota, to take in the cabaret, which is entirely composed of acts being prepared for the circus...
...great master casters and he fears that the old skills will die with him. "They will no longer know how to cast a grande piece in its entirety," he said sadly. "They will cast arms, heads and legs and patch them together." His workers agree. "When the chef de cuisine dies," said one, "the restaurant will go on serving soup, but it won't be exactly the same soup any more...
...gather all its detailed information, Michelin relies on 92 regional representatives, tire-company employees all over France, and five full-time inspectors who spend their days and nights eating their way through the nation. Michelin inspectors never reveal their identity until the meal is over, and woe to the chef who is having an off day. From their voluminous reports, the home office keeps up to date, even to knowing that a certain chef in a little Normandy inn may be slipping because of troubles at home...
...When you set table for Georgians, remember, only too much is ever enough," says white-haired Chef John (Oscar Beregi). For cinemagoers, Anything Can Happen is a hearty, well-flavored spread...