Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maurois biographical writing is a method of escape. Emile Herzog (he adopted the pseudonym since his first book, a war novel, was published while he was still an officer in the French army) was destined for the role of a "chef d'industrie" in his father's cloth factory in Elbeuf. But an active business career did not interest him. He turned novelist and for a while he was known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois...
Architecturally Dunster is not the chef-d'oeuvre of the Messrs, Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott. Its triangular shape and the necessary mass of chimneys would prevent that in any case. But it is at least a symmetrical and coherent whole and ranks second to Lowell as a good example of the Georgian style. Its location on the river adds to the beauty but makes for long walks to the Square. The tenements in the back, housing countless Saturday Evening Post vendors, obviously do not constitute an asset...
...gilt and glitter of the new Astoria has come a change in the institution's culinary department. The new Waldorf sandwich lacks the Swiss cheese and butter of the older school, the school of Long remembrance. So scoffing was the Senator from Louisiana of this new delicacy that Chef Oscar himself was induced to return to the grand old way. Democracy had triumphed...
...Orpen. His soul revolted frequently at painting the smug faces of Success. He never lost his fondness for Gypsies and the color of the West of Ireland. He made brilliant little landscapes. He would sneak away from his job at the Versailles Peace Conference to paint the honey-bearded chef of the Hotel Chatham in Paris. He told President Wilson, General Pershing, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson what he thought of them and earned the subsidiary nickname of "The Wasp." When he could not stand the idea of drawing another frock coat, he would paint himself again, accenting his pixie...
...Chef of the hotel (officially: "Director of the Waldorf-Astoria Kitchens") is Alexandre Gastaud, a pupil for 40 years of the famed-to-gourmets Auguste Escoffier. Chef Gastaud used to cook for food-fond Edward VII. Director of the Towers will be Commendatore Guilio Gelardi who is being loaned by Claridge's of London for the fall and winter seasons. But best known of the Waldorf potentates will be Oscar Tschirky, 65, maître d'hôtel at the old Waldorf, with whom the tycoons and celebrities of many lands are proud to claim acquaintance. During...