Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though a pretty wife, a good chef...
Died. Henri Charpentier, 81, famed French chef who in 1894 invented crepes suzette by putting together a "sweet never before served to anyone" for the delectation of the then Prince of Wales, later Edward VII; of a heart attack; in Redondo Beach, Calif...
...getting $16 a week, and that won't even pay for the iodine." His first big-time comedian's job came at Manhattan's Club 18. a downstairs bin where everybody on the staff took part in the act. even the waiters and chef. One day Hollywood's Jack L. Warner caught his act and signed him to a motion picture contract...
...wonderfully picaresque irregularity of Rabelaisian humor are broken off unexpectedly by passages approaching the drunken, frenzied poetry of a Rimbaud. Obscurity and philosophy, squalor and rhapsody are juxtaposed, crammed together, torn apart and tossed wildly, as if the book were the mixing bowl in which Miller, the mad chef, were preparing a salad -- to fling in the face of the diners. But not even in obscenity or nihilistic frenzy do we find a bit of solid ground. Obsence protests are continually undercut by a laugh, despair by a ray of happy contentedness; even the ferocious prophecies of the impending consummation...
...prices. For Central European cooking and continental atmosphere, the Viennese Lantern (72nd between Second and Third Ave.) may be recommended. Pic n' Pac (on Lexington between 57th and 58th) is not, as the name suggests, a take-out chicken place, but a French restaurant with a very fine Belgian chef and about the only spot in New York where one can order cous cous...