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Throughout the meals, collective farm-girls plied the farmers with vodka, Georgian champagne and sweet wine, Moldavian muscatel, Ukrainian riesling, Armenian cognac and beer. "During the meal at least a dozen toasts are drunk to world peace, Soviet-American friendship, the exchange of ideas, and to women of both countries," reported New York Times Correspondent Welles Hangen. "Thereafter it is open season for anyone to propose a toast to almost anything except war, Fascism and mass destruction." But as for Soviet agriculture, one member of the U.S. delegation remarked: "In general it seems to me that the living standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Open Season | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...common sense as she displays her skill with a skillet. Last week she demonstrated paupiettes de veau Fontage and the unexpurgated chicken marengo (two small chickens are browned in sweet butter; a hen lobster is sautéed, then shelled; chickens and lobster are flamed in cognac, sprinkled with an aromatic sauce of tomatoes, mushrooms, shallots, tarragon and dry vermouth, garnished with fried eggs on croutons and slices of truffles). Chef Lucas makes it look easy, but any housewife ought to know better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cooking for the Camera | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...about $9 and dinner at a top restaurant for $3. London hotels range 3 to $10 nightly for a sir " but country inns still charge only $3 for bed and breakfast. In Spain prices are as low as $2.50 for a room, $2 for a dinner, including wine and cognac, but rooms in good hotels are as scarce as American whisky. In Germany a de luxe room and bath costs $6 or less and a man-sized steak with a half-bottle of wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Biggest Season | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Swimming Crawfish. For 60 crawfish prepare a bouillon with 2 cups dry white wine, ½cup cognac, 3 large carrots and one large onion cut in thin slices, 1 teaspoon salt, a pinch of cayenne and 3 chopped shallots. Boil covered for ½ hour. Then put in crawfish and boil for 10 minutes, turning them about three or four times. Serve hot, cold or tepid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: AN ALICE B.TOKLAS SAMPLER | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...will turn the gigot. Now we come to the main point of the preparation. After you have placed the gigot in the marinade, you will arm yourself with a surgical syringe of a size to hold ½ pint, which you will fill with ½ cup of cognac and ½ cup of fresh orange juice. Inject the contents of the syringe into the fleshy part of the gigot in three different spots. Refill the syringe with the same contents and inject into the gigot twice more. Each day you will fill the syringe with the marinade and inject the contents into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: AN ALICE B.TOKLAS SAMPLER | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

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