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...gourmet restaurant will take over the Hasty Pudding Club dining room by February, Michael Silver, part owner and chef of Michael's Restaurant, said recently...
...Karmal spoke mostly in English, which he said he learned in King Zahir's prisons during the 1950s, and proudly recited the opening lines of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, explaining that he ad mired Americans as people with "a great revolutionary and anticolonialist tradition." Karmal's chef de cabinet and one of his principal military aides were more comfortable speaking Russian...
...course not everything works. Several obvious jokes are beaten laboriously into submission, particularly in the articles on a fat chef, a "liberated" inflatable lady and the Shah in hell. A promising spoof of those insipid People interviews ends drearily when the same joke--the interviewer not recognizing his subject's newsworthy statements--dies from repetition. The parody also slips up in the celebrity department. Probably because it concentrates on the briefly famous folks in People, it never captures the unique flavor of People's celebrity profiles; the parody doesn't look at the amusing laundry list--current success, difficult childhood...
...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...
...kind of place even Reinhart would admire. Amid the book-and sculpture-filled sunny rooms, Thomas Berger, 57, and his artist-wife of 30 years, Jeanne, browse through their sizable collection of cookbooks and photography volumes. The kitchen contains a batterie de cuisine that would flatter a cordon bleu chef. "I love to read about food and look at pictures of it," says the author. "I'm so into cooking we rarely go out to eat any more." It is an unsurprising revelation from a recluse who not only shuns TV appearances and parties but waited six years before...