Word: creams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first of many outposts in this country. To that end they are seeking out and training gifted young American chefs, like Michael Hutchings, the controlling partner in their Santa Barbara pilot venture. Some of the menu offerings are Roux inventions -- the cloudlike cheese souffle adrift in a cream and Gruyere sauce and the succulent beef tournedos in robust red-wine sauce with an earthy hotchpotch of mushrooms. Equally delectable are Hutchings' own creations -- tender abalone in a beurre- blanc sauce with caviar, and squab mellowed in a shallot-scented Cabernet sauce...
...Manhattan scene is Maxim's, the legendary fin-de-siecle set piece on Paris' Rue Royale, now owned by Pierre Cardin. In the New York outpost, the semi-nouvelle French cuisine has been more memorable for its price ($65 for prix-fixe dinner) than for its excellence. The cream of mussel soup known as billi-bi, a Maxim's invention, is decently turned out, but stale-tasting duck pate and the overly complicated, overcooked saddle of lamb with basil cream could not even be considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris setting, includes such embarrassingly...
...well-known crowd it attracts. If you graduated from Phillips Andover, Exeter, Groton, St. Paul's, Middlesex, Concord Academy or any New England prep school within the last five years, chances are that you'll run into someone from your eleventh grade English class waiting in line for ice cream in Oak Bluffs...
...still a few weeks til Labor Day, you'll get ice cream, fudge and tee shirts, a tan if it's not raining, a thesis advisor if it is, a check-up if you need it, and some financial counseling if you don't. What have you got to lose...
...them were four, their romance was sparked not by a sudden glance or even a heartfelt declaration but, well, by a profiterole actually. The cupid's confection came into play at Ascot last year, when a boisterous Andrew put his arm around Fergie and tried to stuff the cream-filled cake into her mouth. The girl who last week vowed to obey him winged the pastry back at his royal person...