Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entirely unsordid details, they are as follows: the setting was the slightly less than grand Grand Hotel on the Welsh seacoast, where she took a job as a waitress; the lucky fellow was the cute young Scottish chef, who was patient, kind and wise about the whole business. As was Annie, come to think of it. Since the weather was uniformly fine and their mates on the hotel staff, being lower class and English, were politely eccentric, it is hard to see anything about the experience that was unpleasant. Even sitting through the rather dim and distant movie about that...
...southwest is cassoulet, a concoction of meat and dried beans that is the subject of as many variations and arguments as bouillabaisse or chili. After tasting dozens of versions, the author found the ultimate cassoulet at the Hotel de France in Auch, prepared by the celebrated Gascon chef Andre Daguin. Made with fresh fava beans and confit of duck, it is a contrast in flavors and textures that struck her as nothing less than "a miracle." American cooks should be equally impressed...
...turned out to be more stimulating than he had imagined: the Bok family was looking for a chef. "We didn't want live-in help like a butler, but needed some assistance, especially after Scissile began teaching," the president explains...
...step on Sternin's itinerary. After he receives his master's degree in June, he plans to travel to China, with his wife and three-year-old son. And some time next year, another sign will probably go up in Holyoke Center advertising the post of Harvard's first chef...
Carver's stories radiate a sense of laconic menace. The worse the fates of his people, the more elliptically they seem to be telegraphed. In Chef's House, Edna is persuaded to rejoin her husband Wes. He tells her he has stopped drinking and is living in a rented house with a view of the ocean. Together, they happily pass a summer. But then the landlord says his daughter needs the house, and Wes and Edna will have to leave. Edna realizes that this news will send Wes back to booze and her away from...