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...Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, Prudhomme...
...sprawl and lack of discipline struck him as quintessentially American. He believed that with only a few word changes, it could be set in the U.S. of 1984. That was his first mistake. Despite such up-to-date props as Hustler magazine and barbecue aprons that say KISS THE CHEF, the play remains obdurately Russian and an unmistakable creation of its time...
Would local turkeys suffice? No, decided the hotel's French chef Georges Mompezat, who sampled and loftily dismissed fowls from China and Hong Kong as too scrawny. He opted instead for 40 frozen toms from California ("There was no comparison"). His gold-embossed menu also called for fresh garden vegetables, always in uncertain supply in Peking, so a professor from the Peking Agricultural College was asked to oversee. Some came from the hotel's own greenhouse, but the canned cranberries had to be flown in from Hong Kong. Other ingredients were home grown: 176 lbs. of beef...
...applying these lessons, says Shra-gai, "my life was totally changed." Today the man who used to love steak says, "I won't touch it." At a restaurant, "if I choose fish, I ask the chef to skip the butter or please to sauté it in wine." Every morning, regardless of weather, the man who once spurned exercise goes for an eightmile, two-hour hike through the wooded mountain trails near his home. He no longer smokes. His workdays average between eight and ten hours, but he insists, "I can absolutely stay away from the tension...
Cambridge police this weekend arrested an unemployed chef from Somerville who allegedly robbed two Cambridge banks this month, officers said yesterday...