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...secret of the grill's success is its versatility: under its heat-distributing dome, a backyard chef can cook a suckling pig, bake bread and produce an entire dinner at the same time. Moreover, the grill turned out to be a penny-saving charcoal miser: closing the dampers extinguishes the fire, so that leftover charcoal can be reused. These virtues made Stephen's neighbors clamor for copies of his initial grill; after he had made a few of them, demand seemed so strong that in 1958 he left the sheet-metal company to found Weber-Stephen Products...
...proliferated, but Americans can now pop around the corner to get takeaway tacos, fish cakes, spaghetti and even German sausage. Some of the country's biggest corporations have challenged McDonald's by buying up fast-food chains: Heublein (Kentucky Fried Chicken), Pillsbury (Burger King), General Foods (Burger Chef...
After all those years of flinging rich Gallic dishes about on TV, America's premier French chef, Julia Child, has become a culinary turncoat. In her first new public broadcasting series since 1972, she will concentrate on, of all things, American cuisine. Says Julia, 64: "It's time we branched out and did something different." In the 13-installment program, which she will begin shooting in September, Julia will whip up entire meals instead of single dishes, aiming also to "get out of the kindergarten. We don't want to show how to chop onions. This will...
Pacing outside Duino Castle near Trieste in early 1912, German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke heard a voice above the Adriatic surf: "And if I cried, who'd listen to me in those angelic orders?" Rilke took this enigmatic question as the signal to begin his chef-d'oeuvre: a series of poems that would unite the visible order of things with the invisible universe of thought-to see the world as the angels might. He finished two elegies and fragments of several others before inspiration deserted him. Ten years and a world war later, it suddenly reappeared...
...what about the chef...