Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to legend a group of students, after they were ejected from their boarding house after a chicken croquette fight, rented an old house, hired a Negro cook, bought a stove, and Ivy club was in business...
...trip originated with a suggestion by Harold J. Coolidge '27, associate in Mammalogy, that Davis, a surgeon and Chief Public Health Officer in the Cook Islands, study at the School of Public Health, during a medical conference at Tahiti...
...most colorful political figures in the country, the five-foot-five, 215 lb. Toledo butterball is noted for his shrewd political sense and good humor. A son of an Italian immigrant, DiSalle makes no bones about his ancestry. He is introduced as "Toledo's best amateur spaghetti cook." When a heckler asked him if he were a member of the Mafia, he replied...
...realized it so late. Born plain Maurice-Edmond Sailland, he ate well, as most people do in his native Loire valley, up to the age of 15, but only for the sake of sustenance. Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl named Marie Chevalier as their cook. A native genius, Marie could whip up sauces creamy as clouds and subtle as sunsets; she could pluck a plum tart from the oven at the split second of proper crispness or mash a marron to the delicacy of morning dew. "She civilized me," sighs Curnonsky, repeating an old quip...
...Feel It. Since then the Prince has been heaped with culinary honors. His appearance for dinner at any restaurant is royalty's warrant. Living alone with only a hot plate to cook on, he arises at three each afternoon and breakfasts simply on a boiled egg and warm milk. The business of his day starts at suppertime, when carefully chosen friends knock on the door of his cluttered apartment and escort him to dinner. Last week the Prince reached his 80th birthday, and all France rallied to wish him bon appétit. Some hundred of the nation...