Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hotel in Taunton, a visiting chevalier of the Cercle Gastronomique de Belgique went home to Belgium and talked his fellow epicures into awarding the English hotel its Grand Prix for the year. He was eloquent in praise of the roast duckling, the apple tart, the port-touched Stilton. Castle Chef Charles Instep accepted the prize (a silver cup, 18 inches high) for himself and England with becoming modesty. "We can't always please 100% of our customers," he said. "I just try to please...
...biggest seller of all, Adolf's Meat Tenderizer, pioneered the new method of utilizing the papaya enzyme. Its promoters, two Hollywood ex-servicemen named Lloyd Rigler and Larry Deutsch, first encountered it in a mixture prepared by Adolf Rempp, a Los Angeles steakhouse chef whose steaks were unusually tender. They bought his formula for $10,000, worked out a way to blend the papaya extract with ordinary salt, which could be sprinkled evenly-and in visible amounts -on the meat. Rigler and Deutsch went about the U.S. inviting jaded food editors, who were cynical about all such preparations...
...impression on Genevieve that Louis Jouvet did, in a single visit. He came to Henri IV early one evening, out of temper and unwilling to talk. With some escargots and two bottles of Chateauncuf du pape all this changed. He stayed until four in the morning, he and the chef, a wiry Frenchman, roaring off-color Gallic songs to each other...
...personnel department, wrote to discourage Hood from the expense of making a trip to New York, because of the uncertainty of getting a job when he arrived. But Hood wasn't discouraged for long. He got his old summertime job at a resort hotel (as second chef in the restaurant, and as operator of his own baggage-hauling business on the side), and in August he wrote us again, asking for an employment interview...
...trip: Boy Scouts in Stockholm are sending 1,000 pine seedlings this spring to Boy Scouts in Worcester; Dutch tulip growers flew 250 bulbs to Worcester where they have been planted in the city common. The Vienna Choir Boys dedicated a lullaby to Worcester; and Louis Barthe, chef at Maxim's in Paris, invented a new dish called langue de boeuf à la Worcester (recipe: soak beef tongue for six days in bay leaves, then boil and serve with a heavy port wine sauce...