Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reinhart. He survived marital and fiscal disasters by waddling through the door to enlightenment before he was really ready. When last seen, Reinhart was scouring a disco called the Gastrointestinal System for his shady boss in an even darker, cryogenic body-freezing scheme. Now, as the slimmed-down chef on a local TV cooking show, his main concern is whether the sliced mushrooms will brown in their lemon-juice bath. At last he can afford to reflect: "The best defense against any moral outrage is patience; wait a moment and something will change: the outrage, he who committed...
Near by, other amiable smells emanate from the domain of Henry Haller, the White House chef since 1966. The strike has not affected his operation because the dressed birds for the dinner's main course-suprême of royal squab Véronique-were flown in several days earlier from New York. The choice of squab, to come between cold salmon and an intimidatingly rich dessert of fresh peach mousse cardinal, was a late decision by Nancy Reagan. The original selection had been duckling with glazed apples, but she felt that there had been too many canards...
...Julia Child, star of the television series The French Chef...
...James Beard, master chef and author of a score of cookbooks
While a very roughhewn justice is dealt the plot, Trinculo, the jester, has become a blowsy demimondaine (Lola Pashalinski), and her companion, the drunken butler Stephano (Louis Zorich), looks like a disheveled French chef with a torn toque blanche. The pair do a crude parody of Mae West...