Word: cognacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Contagious Enthusiasm. In his bustling life, Monnet, the son of a brandymaker in the French town of Cognac, has sold bonds on Wall Street, peddled wine to fur trappers of Hudson Bay, liquidated a Swedish match company and rebuilt a Chinese railroad, served in wartime Washington as a British diplomat (his passport was specially endorsed by "Winston S. Churchill"). But his finest hour came in 1950, when he persuaded French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to propose the supranational coal-steel pool. "The pooling of coal and steel is but a beginning," Monnet argued. "The union of the peoples of Europe...
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...
...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...
...your Aug. 2 story, "How to Live to 100": Please be informed of the remark made to the press last April 6 by Mrs. Athalie Neuvelle of Angouleme, France, who, on her joist birthday, declared: "I've always preferred cognac to doctors...