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...days. His eating habits were equally bizarre. He existed largely on unvaried diets consisting mainly of such sweets as fudge and cakes. At one time he developed an obsession for cakes that were perfectly square. "We had a ruler in the kitchen to measure them with," recalls the former chef at the Bayshore Inn in Vancouver, where Hughes stayed in 1972. At other times he would fast for days. Usually he drank bottled Poland water from Maine...
...that he would make a film about Hughes titled-guess what?- The Billionaire. It will hardly be factual, since he intends to base it on the fake "autobiography" of Hughes that Writer Clifford Irving foisted on LIFE and McGraw-Hill before he was jailed for fraud. Hughes' former chef, Garry Reich, said that he was ready to sell the recipe for the fudge that Howard savored. Meanwhile, the Mexican authorities seemed piqued that Hughes had got away without leaving anything valuable behind. Two days after his death, Mexican detectives raided his Jasmine suite in the Acapulco penthouse and seized...
...students hope that Knock Knock has a long run, but they miss having Seltzer at Princeton full time. For one thing, the bachelor professor now has little time to uphold his reputation as the best chef on campus. He has been forced to cut back on the Indian and Szechuan Chinese dinners he cooks for his students. But what students miss most are his classroom dramatics. Says Sophomore Chad Restum: "Dan can do a reading involving three characters and never make a mistake with the different voices." The day when Seltzer is back performing at the podium may come none...
...group has given more meaning to Brillat-Savarin's statement than the chefs of France. They are the world's gastronomers royal. But they exact from their followers a literally heavy price -in calories and cholesterol. Their creations call for churns of butter, streams of cream and eggs by the dozen. With the late great Chef Fernand Point, they cry with all the fervor of a Richard III, "Du beurre! Donnez-moi du beurre! Toujours du beurre...
...French-can enjoy a memorable meal that contains only 500 calories instead of the 3,000 or more that tradition demands. No longer, as the old adage had it, need a Frenchman dig his grave with a fork. The blasphemer is an impish, outgoing, pint-sized ex-pastry chef named Michel Guérard, 42, who has invented la cuisine minceur-the cuisine of slimness...