Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million people, with plenty of jobs, a shorter work week -perhaps 35 hours-and average family income topping $10,000 yearly (nearly double current income). Food supplies will be reasonable and ample. Foods now canned or frozen will be preserved by harmless nuclear radiation, and home electronic ovens will cook meals in minutes instead of hours, but "men and women will still struggle for happiness, which will continue to lie within themselves...
Escoffier's life had a simple line. At 13, he left school for the kitchen of his uncle's restaurant in Nice. He learned the hard way, but fast-uninterrupted even by the Franco-Prussian War, when, as an army chef, he learned how to cook a horse (scald the meat and cool before cooking, to kill the bitter taste). After the war he perfected his style and fatefully met Hotelman Cesar Ritz. At Ritz-managed hotels (Monte Carlo's Grand, London's Savoy and Carlton, Paris' Ritz), Escoffier cooked his way to fame...
Ecstasy in Minutes. His reforms were radical. In the kitchen chaos of the old regime, for example, one cook took 15 minutes to prepare Eggs Meyerbeer. Under Escoffier's system of specialists, an entre-mettier baked the eggs in butter, a ròtisseur grilled the kidney, a saucier dished up the truffle sauce, and a gourmet was made ecstatic in only a few minutes. Traditionally, a luncheon for 40 might consist of 40 courses, and a dinner might last 18 hours, but Escoffier forged a new concept, replacing Gargantuan plenitude and baroque splendor with classic simplicity. His menus...
...Criminality" in the May 30 issue: . . . To make criminal any sexual activity in which husband and wife engage with mutual consent and love is . . . ridiculous. What married people do in bed is no more the business of lawmakers than is the way they cook their eggs when they...
Through a long summer she copes with daughters, coddles temperamental Roza the cook, and Toona the city-bred maid, who remarks ominously that "the country is awfully quiet." She gets distractedly involved in the church fair and in the problem of finding an extra man for a "little dinner" ("Charles says . . . he will attend to it. Am stunned with gratitude and surprise...