Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor disappointment. Bevin had asked for snails (which he learned to like during the Paris Conference last summer), but had not given the Embassy chef enough notice. At dessert, fruit had to be substituted for strawberry melba, be cause, at the last moment, the iceman (striking for five francs more an hour) did not come...
...Cavalier's famed sunken gardens were not yet in bloom, but every day the hotel management sent up baskets of spring flowers, mainly King Alfred jonquils. The P.M. ate in the hotel dining room, and Chef Gene Gualko successfully stimulated his appetite with all sorts of southern dishes and sea food. At almost every meal, Mackenzie King ordered Virginia bacon. Once he got away with two whole broiled lobsters and was "crazy about them...
Died. Georges Gonneau, 50, famed chef; of leukemia; in Manhattan. His chef-d'oeuvre: breast of pheasant, simmered with juniper berries, truffle essence and old Calvados brandy; fresh chestnuts nested in green artichoke hearts; individual timbale of baked chip potatoes...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. suddenly found an unexpected demand for his literary chef-d'oeuvre, though he had bound only 872 volumes of it (not for sale at bookstores), and still had 20-odd to go. The demand for his blow-by-blow Washington diary, monumentally documented (TIME, Jan. 13), came from Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder. Snyder said he wanted it back; it was public property...
...kept the water-powered elevator, run by ropes pulled by the passengers. While blonde & beautiful Mrs. Paepcke hunted Victorian furniture in Chicago, dormitories, 20 guest houses and a sundeck were built, the ski slopes were cleared, a movie house, roller rink and art gallery were constructed. Paepcke imported a chef from Switzerland, a wine expert from Chicago. Ski instructors, plumbers and mechanics trooped in. Overnight, the moribund little town became the liveliest spot in Colorado...