Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field all fall. Undergraduates cheered and telegrams poured in. Newspaper editorials applauding Yale's gesture as something which fell only a little short of the Emancipation Proclamation. Actually it was more than a gesture of racial tolerance. The simple fact was that Levi Jackson, son of a Negro chef in a Yale fraternity house, was the Big Blue's best player and one of the best liked. The vote was unanimous. Said Levi: "It's swell...
...were the paintings-almost too successful. Dufy never lets nature trouble him; he uses it, like a seasoned chef making a salad. The fresh green of a hillside, the blue of the Mediterranean, the delicate lilt of a racing horse, the crisp lines of the Eiffel Tower, the smoke of a train or the plump pinkness of a nude are all equally his dish. Crippled with arthritis, he sometimes has to strap his brush to his hand but (like Renoir, who was also arthritic) he permits only pleasure and good taste to appear in his work...
Over his purple-sashed cassock and heavy gold pectoral cross, Episcopal Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe of Long Island tied a white apron. Over his purple-edged skullcap he put a chef's white hat. In the spacious grounds of his cathedral at suburban Garden City, the bishop was chief cook (but not bottle-washer) at a clambake last week for the Episcopal Actors' Guild...
Where were the 5,000 steaks, the 2,500 lamb chops, the 2,500 Ibs. of ham that were supposed to arrive with the U.S. team? The team's special chef (borrowed from Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel) didn't know. Back in the kitchen the cooks spoke five languages, and he couldn't make him self understood in any of them...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt (who liked to chew cold cigars), John Wanamaker (who asked "are you leading a Christian life?"), the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (who liked his beef well-done). On one of the jobs, César Ritz formed a lifelong partnership with an obscure chef named Auguste Escoffier...