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...also wondered about mundane things such as Koch's personal intervention to help a New Orleans chef open a gourmet Cajun restaurant. The Times applauded the Mayor's action, and later endorsed his candidacy, as it has in the past, this time dubbing him "The Restaurant Mayor." Schanberg treated the issue with a degree of incredulity, saying the mayor's intervention on behalf of the chef was, "Big news in a city where the newspapers have shrunk to four in number and suffer from frequent bouts of sleeping sickness...
Remember the guy in the chef's hat on Sesame Street, who would walk up the stairs singing, "Five, five, five, five, let's sing a song of five... How many is five...
...full meal, from gumbo to pecans, runs just under $25, cash only. The quality should be quite consistent, because chef John Silberman, a former Prudhomme apprentice, personally prepares every dish, six nights a week...
Although there is some argument as to the best name, there seems to be complete agreement that the most successfully innovative practitioner of the new cooking is Joel Robuchon, 40, the chef and proprietor of Jamin, in Paris' elegant 16th arrondissement. The dimpled, diffident Robuchon astounded the French food hierarchy (and himself) in 1984 when he won the coveted three-star rating from the Guide Michelin only three years after he bought the . restaurant. Not even the two stars he had previously earned as chef at the Nikko hotel in Paris prepared him for gaining Michelin's top rating...
Robuchon is branching out. It comes as a surprise to see boil-in-bag main courses simmering away in his kitchen. "It will be used by the French railways for their first-class passengers on the Paris-to-Strasbourg route," the chef says. "It cooks for 14 hours, then it can be kept without freezing or preservatives for eight days. Now I test it in large quantities, then it will be packaged in portions." To Joel Robuchon, not even the sky's the limit. "Who knows?" he says wistfully. "May- be someday men will eat my food on the moon...