Word: chow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hangar Ray was loading the plane. Four dozen eggs. A case of Old Milwaukee. A case of Budweiser. A roll of roofing tar paper. Cat Chow. Meow Mix. Grape-Nuts flakes. Bread. A broom. "Some of them out there are brand conscious," Carol said. "Some are quality conscious. Some you just know what to get. One cat at the Allison ranch, for instance, won't eat anything but Purina...
...publishers of the Guide Gault-Millau plan to appeal the Mr. Chow verdict. Henri Millau suggested that the suit was "a publicity stunt," adding: "I guess that in the next few days people will flock to his restaurant and they will no doubt be sadly disappointed by the so-called authentic Chinese cooking." Said New York City Restaurant Critic Mimi Sheraton (who also pans Mr. Chow's): "It was the most outrageous award I've ever heard of. If this decision were upheld, I would feel inhibited in writing reviews in the future." At the very least...
...Michael Chow, proprietor of Mr. Chow's Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, the key questions facing the jury were purely factual ones. Was Guide Gault-Millau correct in asserting that the pancakes served with his Peking duck were "the size of a saucer and the thickness of a finger"? Was it true that his "sweet-and-sour pork contained more dough (badly cooked) than meat," as the pugnacious Parisian guide to New York City proclaimed? To prove otherwise, Chow brought his chef into Manhattan federal district court to demonstrate to the jury his technique for making paper-thin pancakes...
...mouth-watering evidence was persuasive. The jurors decided that Chow, who also owns restaurants in London and Beverly Hills, had been libeled by the Gault-Millau review and awarded him $20,000 in compensatory damages along with a $5 tip for punitive damages. The Shanghai-born restaurateur feels that justice was done. Said he: "Freedom of the press is designed to protect the right to tell the truth, not to print lies...
...significance of Chow's victory, however, could be far heavier than his pancakes. At stake in the case, say libel experts, is the right of critics to express their own judgments. Reviews, which are by nature subjective opinions, have generally been exempt from the standards of libel applied to news stories. But the distinction in libel cases between reporting and criticism is now being called into question...