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Craig Claiborne, New York Times food critic, made the rounds of Miami's restaurants and found their cuisine good for laughs but not for digestion. Affronting his gourmet tastes at one restaurant was a mousse au chocolat crowned with whipped cream and as a final insult, perhaps, a maraschino cherry. At another establishment, Claiborne complained that a wedge of Camembert cheese had been served cold. The waiter offered to "run it under the broiler." "Now I ask you," wrote the exasperated critic, "isn't that worth the price of the meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Search Beyond Sadism | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...warmed its cash registers by freezing its delicacies for retail sale, offers a full French line, from single portions of sauce Périgourdine ($1.25) and pompano Véronique ($4.50), to complete dinners for eight at $100 (sea food au gratin, duck au Grand Marnier, soufflé au chocolat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Let Them Eat Pat | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

G.O.P. leaders met at Hershey (where even the famed rose gardens are permeated with eau de chocolat), Wood seemed the "logical" candidate, mainly because he was lieutenant governor. By the time the brandy and cigars were ordered in Hershey, everything was in eppel sas kuuche order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Voter's Farmer | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...soda jerker at South Hadley's sole fountain said bon jour to customers who last week asked for the soda au chocolat. Under the nearby shade trees of Mount Holyoke College's New England campus, entretiens (discussions) raged in French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Burgundy in Holyoke | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...nervous effort and tightening in driving under fire which takes it out of one physically. The result is that after our 'spells' of 24 or 48 hours we sink into lethargic repose until the next call. The days seem all alike--except that we are served 'chocolat' instead of black, sugarless coffee on Sunday mornings--and they slip by, unsung, into the tumbled yesterdays of 'a little while ago.' I was in tremendous luck to be able to 'graft' my way into this section on the eve of its first real action--and once the action got started it seemed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR WORKER DESCRIBES LIFE | 1/29/1918 | See Source »

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