Word: chez
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Beginning with Alice Waters, the first female chef to gain national renown -- in 1971 after opening Chez Panisse in Berkeley, where she gives a light, decorative California interpretation to the dishes of Provence and Italy -- the best women chefs have stayed away from traditional mamma fare. Newcomer Caprial Pence combines Oriental condiments with European dishes and local products at Fullers in the Seattle Sheraton Hotel; Hong Kong-born Jackie Shen, chef-owner of Jackie's in Chicago, decks out fillet of fish sauteed with papaya, avocado and orchids...
Harvard's youngest improv comedy group presents its first Ex show this weekend with its performance of "TV Improv" Friday night and "Chez Cliche," a murder/mystery/cabaret on Saturday...
...discuss specific plots before they go on stage; they take groups of three words or themes as their points of reference. Friday night the actors in the 16-member ensemble will spoof topics from TV talk show announcers to soap operas to docudramas, and Saturday night's Chez Cliche should feature, you guessed it, tried and true murder mystery themes...
...nude, atop his chiffonier, swinging his thyroid around his head by his bamboo cane, like a dead rat. Oona in an aquamarine gown, applauding madly from the bathroom." The banned Hamilton version: "At one point in a letter to Burnett ((Salinger)) provides a pen portrait of the Happy Hour Chez Chaplin: the comedian, ancient and unclothed, is brandishing his walking stick -- attached to the stick, and horribly resembling a lifeless rodent, is one of Chaplin's vital organs. Oona claps her hands in appreciation...
...restaurant. And to become famous, it had to have a short name without the word restaurant in it," he says, explaining that he finally chose Lutece from the ancient name for Paris, Lutetia. When he was making his | plans he heard of Soltner, then the chef at Chez Hansi, an Alsatian brasserie in Paris. Surmain went over, tasted Soltner's food and offered him a job with the promise of a partnership if they succeeded. "It sounded like a crazy idea, but I thought that at least I'd learn English," says Soltner. "We were a good team...