Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome, 3-in. drummer in Louis XIV's army is done up in the flaming red, orange and white uniform of the period, with every button, every bit of lace exactly in place. France's handful of craftsmen (among them: an old widow, an ex-jockey, a chef) will spend an entire week fashioning the body for such a figure, then modeling the uniform out of tin leaf. It takes 40 delicate soldering operations to make King Louis' drummer fit to pass muster and about $30 hard cash to put him in a collector's cabinet...
...Victoria Plaza equipped with every convenience the most demanding tourist could expect: airconditioning, the continent's fastest elevators (710 ft. a minute), bilingual telephonists and barbers, a Helena Rubinstein beauty parlor, bedsitting rooms furnished with thick English rugs and draperies, and running ice water. Pride & joy of Executive Chef "Lugot of the Waldorf" is the pushbutton kitchen, visible to bife-savoring patrons in all its stainless-steel sublimity through a long window that runs the entire width of the hotel's grill room. Pronouncing Uruguayan beef the equal of Argentina's finest, Chef Lugot undertakes to serve...
...jobless chef arrested in the Yard Friday for having stolen a book from the Law Library is now suspected of being a Communist spy. Four Boston Federal Bureau of Investigation agents questioned the man yesterday at Cambridge Police headquarters, where he is being held on a charge of suspicion of larceny...
There has been a noticeable lack of meat in the recent chop suey served up by the Central Kitchen. Whether this has been an oversight, an economy measure, or a deliberate plot by a vegetarian chef, it must be rectified. Harvard houses used to serve the best chop suey this aide of Yee Hung Gooey's magnificent restaurant on Oxford Street. But this reputation is sure to vanish if meatless chop suey becomes official policy...
...Bemelmans' Europe, all is eternally prewar, in mood if not in time: the Rolls-Royces glide forever down the poplar-lined avenues to the magic chateaux of mysterious princesses: the penniless dukes and counts sponge delicately on the newly rich; back of every exquisite dinner stands a temperamental chef with handlebar mustaches. It has been Bemelmans' art to convince his U.S. public not only that such a dream world exists, but that Bemelmans himself carries the skeleton key to its secret closets...