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...clock one afternoon last week a crowd of 100 eager, jostling Frenchmen stood behind a police cordon outside the Drouant restaurant in Paris. Inside, another 200 journalists and photographers circulated among the tuxedoed waiters of the establishment, possessor of two proud ** in the Michelin guide. Finally, a representative of the literary ladies and gentlemen who had been deliberating over a luncheon that included foie gras des Landes en gelée au porto, faisan rôti au pommes en liard fromages and profiteroles (enhanced by Bâtard-Montrachet 1970 and Château Nenin 1967) emerged from...
...This," declared Master Chef Danny Kaye, "is Empress Chicken with Devoted Eunuch Vegetables." His audience, ten Bay Area gourmets who had enlisted for a cordon crêpe de Chine course at Mme. Cecilia Chiang's restaurant, The Mandarin, was suitably impressed, gasping as a duck skin was brutally inflated with a bike pump to demonstrate how to make Peking duck. Kaye started coming to class last year; then, when his old friend Mme. Chiang (no kin to Mme. Chiang Kaishek) fell ill, he stepped in as instructor. Danny still makes the weekly trip from his Beverly Hills home...
...computer bills the consumer incorrectly. The consumer writes a letter of protest. The computer ignores the message and all further pleas while grimly sending out tougher and tougher dunning notes and threatening to whistle in the lawyers. The hapless customer may struggle for years to break through the cordon of computers and get to a human being who can understand the problem...
...Michael Manley and Jamaica's Parliament finally had enough last March after four prominent businessmen were shot to death. Manley sponsored two new laws aimed at meting out "swift, sure and irreversible punishment" to anyone caught carrying a gun illegally. Under the Suppression of Crime Act, army troops cordon off areas of the 4,411-sq.-mi. island while police conduct intensive house-to-house searches without warrants. Anyone caught with an unlicensed gun or even a single bullet is tried under the provisions of a second law, the Gun Court Act. Under the terms of this draconian legislation...
...Grendel's offers much, much more than just delicious salads. In fact, their menu may boast more items than any similiar Square restaurant. In addition to such mainstays of the menu as delicious soups, cheese fondue and veal cordon bleu, the chef makes one's choice difficult by offering a dozen or so other Middle Eastern, European, and seafood daily specials. Most dinner dishes go for around $4, and they include rice and (unfortunately usually overcooked) vegetables...