Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restaurant owners-who must feed Moslems who do not eat pork, Brahmans who do not eat meat, Britons and Russians who take their tea with reverence. Pondering their task, they earnestly asked for an additional 500,000-lb. meat allotment. Their spokesman was George Mardikian, proprietor and chef of the famed restaurant Omar Khayyam. In a stately letter to San Francisco's bustling, chunky Mayor Roger Lapham he wrote...
...Francophile Sultan, living in his green and white palace at Rabat in French Morocco, this state of affairs was as unpleasant as it was to the British and the French. Sidi Mohamed had his palace, his four wives, his growing brood of sons, his 100 concubines, his French chef, his crimson carriage, his salaaming subjects, who greet him with the cry "How great is the Sultan"-an exclamation, not a question. But he was not consoled...
...Scribe basement an Army mess has been set up, which keeps bodies and souls joined but leaves us completely unsatisfied. (The chef has managed to destroy the old myth that you can give a Frenchamn even Army rations and he will make something tasty out of them.) But the Café de la Paix is just around the corner and gets a good deal of our trade...
...last week, in spite of OPA food ceilings, $7-a-day dishwashers and a $175-a-week chef, William Richard Wilkerson, LaRue's proprietor, could be reasonably certain that his $44,000 investment will pay off. In its first ten weeks, LaRue had grossed $109,000; it was averaging $14,000 weekly...
...acting head of the Soviet Embassy, was named Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., succeeding Maxim Litvinoff (TIME, Aug. 30). Last week Andrei Gromyko, a modest, bookish comrade, finally got around to the formality of presenting his credentials to Franklin Roosevelt. For this occasion, Ambassador Gromyko, an able diplomatic chef, dished up some minute cuts of political meat, skillfully smothered in diplomatic parsley...