Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lull between luncheon and cocktails, Henri Charpentier, famed chef who says he invented Crepes Suzette, was musing in the spotless kitchens of his Rockefeller Center Cafe when a New York City marshal and six deputies scuffled through his door. With no respect at all for Henri or his little French pancakes, they shooed out his patrons, scattered his clamoring staff of 77, packed up his food and drink, evicted Henri himself in apron and chef...
...Case of the Curious Bride (Warner). Perry Mason (Warren William) belongs to the new school of cinema detectives. A lawyer by profession, an amateur chef by avocation, he investigates crime mainly for his own exhilaration. In The Case of the Curious Bride he is thrown into a state of high good humor when an old friend (Margaret Lindsay) pries him out of the kitchen to announce that her first husband, whom she thought dead, has reappeared, complicating her relations with her second, wastrel son of a millionaire. When he goes to call on the first husband and finds him murdered...
Died. Auguste Escoffier, 88, famed chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
Scalloped Potatoes, Potatoes Julienne, Potatoes an Gratin, Lorette Potato, Potato Pancakes, Potatoes Allumettes, Potato Souffle-all these are delicacies when delivered from the hands of an expert chef. But there was no chef artist enough to make any of these as savory as the Potato Intrigue served last week in Washington...
...puchero recipe of Chef Juan Nieto* of Manhattan's Spanish Restaurant El Chico: Spanish peas (garbanzos), cabbage, potatoes, one fowl, beef (1 to 2 lb.), ham (cubed, about ½lb.), spanish sausage (chorizos), lare onion, tomato, pinch of saffron, salt & pepper. Boil slowly for two hours. Serve fowl, beef, ham and sausage on separate platter, garnished with vegetables. Serve broth separately...