Word: cutlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caple's special prey were butchers who had been reported for playing favorites with comely customers. If Mrs. Caple was able to charm them out of an extra cutlet, she then chilled them with a summons...
...Cutlet for the Countess
...story of the elephant cutlet concluded Ludwig Bemelmans' first book published here, My War with the United States (1937) As many of your readers will remember, the story concerned a Viennese restaurateur who wanted to run a restaurant such as had never existed beforehand advertised "Cutlets from Every Animal in the World." His first customer, a countess, asked for an elephant cutlet. The chef rose to the occasion with the punch line: "Madame, I am very sorry, but for one cutlet we cannot cut up our elephant...
...named Rudolf Schiener bought Bubi's 3,500-lb. carcass. With a spirit and enterprise new to conservative old Vienna, he renamed his restaurant "The Elephant," and began experimenting with Bubi's remains in the kitchen. He wrote new menus featuring Afrikabraten (roast elephant), Bubi Schnitzel (elephant cutlet), Gulyas a la Bubi and Bubiwurst...