Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinner for Louis XIV, according to Mme. de Sévigné, the grand chef de cuisine at the Château Chantilly killed himself rather than face the Sun King without enough fish for his pièce de résistance. Fortunately, no such tragedy marred last week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth to France, although one great cake prepared in her honor collapsed from the heat before she got to it and had to be hurriedly propped up. No one's life was held forfeit, and the first visit of a reigning...
...Paris, Head Chef Eugène Lerch of the luxurious Hotel George V saw a TIME footnote about President Eisenhower's cooking and bubbled up in rage like a fondue that has been too close to the fire too long. "It's not true," Chef Lerch cried and fired off a protest to TIME'S editors. In Troy, N.Y. Eighth-Grader Lisa Fitzgerald read our review of Humorist H. Allen Smith's Write Me a Poem, Baby. Lisa, who writes poetry and reviews for the Willard Day School literary magazine Pipes of Pan, was delighted...
...Strike Clause. In Elizabeth, N.J., after she slapped a chef, was struck in return during a disagreement over an order of onions, Waitress Fay Martin won $5,200 damages in a ruling by a judge who called it "common knowledge" that "a woman's slap on the face of a grown man is not of such character as to require resistance...
...Many Croutons? In Malibu, Calif., arrested in the fashionable Holiday House restaurant after pulling a knife on Chef Carlos Hernandez, slashing the wrist of a dishwasher, hurling a pot of hot coffee that struck a second dishwasher, Waiter John C. Burton explained to police that he was upset over the way Hernandez was mixing a Caesar salad...
...backdrop, and money no object, it was the subcontinent's party of the year. Everybody was anxious to make the coronation a thumping success. Distrusting the manners of their local waiters, the Nepalese had imported 130 skilled servitors from India to minister to the distinguished guests. The best chef in town was sprung from jail (where he was serving a sentence for bootlegging) to supervise the feasts. Forty extra taxicabs of 2O-year vintage had been driven into town over the new road from India. Pink and blue bathtubs, toilets by the dozen, chickens, ducks, guinea hens, smoked salmon...