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...Died. Euell Gibbons, 64, naturalist, connoisseur of wild foods and cookbook author, who in his writings and numerous television appearances campaigned to popularize a natural diet; of an apparent heart attack; in Sunbury, Pa. Gibbons became a hero of natural-food enthusiasts after the publication of his Stalking the Wild Asparagus...
Hence-of course-La Varenne, a new French cookery school in Paris sponsored by Child, fellow cookbook Authors James Beard and Simone ("Simca") Beck, and other gurus of gastronomy on both sides of the Atlantic. What sets La Varenne apart from any other school of la cuisine classique in France is that it is run-efficiently-by an Englishwoman, Anne Willan-and it is the first full-scale school to offer lessons in English as well as French. Without mincing any mots, the well-financed academy has set out to challenge the haughty Cordon Bleu, the 80-year-old citadel...
Nashville doesn't have any "real stuff," and as a result some critics had trouble talking about it. One might call them the cookbook critics--their theory is that the secret's in the ingredients. Just as the studios make movies like salad, adding a sprinkle of "love interest," a dash of "violence," a pinch of "fun," so the critics think of "plot" or "action" or "climax" as separate components to be inserted in a movie at will. "Bad language," for example, is a poor allocation, no matter how it's used...
...usual with Altman, it depends on what the color of your glasses is at the time. Either "It Don't Worry Me" is a stirring cry of survival, or the horrible chant of a wired mass for whom murder doesn't matter. Or a million other things, but the cookbook crowd tried frantically to answer this question, because the only anchor they could find in this plotless, characterless, messageless mass was that Nashville was about "America." America is very big this summer, maybe, but it's a frustrating theme for people accustomed to motion pictures telling them what to think...
...Nashville, he jettisoned (with a couple of exceptions that mar the film) the last obstacle to making a purely descriptive movie: he junked the concept of the filmmaker himself. Opal, the BBC reporter, busily chronicling American and acting sillier than the Nashvilleans, is a parody of Altman. And the cookbook critics, trying to get a grip on themselves, string adjectives together searching...