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...humanly happier, if ethically problematic, event occurred in England. The first baby ever conceived outside the human body was born 8% months after doctors there united sperm and egg in a laboratory petri dish and then implanted the embryo in the mother's womb...
Another lovely legacy of old Russia is Chicken Kiev, a dish too seldom served in American homes or restaurants. Carl Jerome's The Complete Chicken (Random House; 247 pages; $12.95) should provide a rise in fare. The author, who has been a teaching and writing associate of James Beard's, ennobles the plebeian poulet in such great incarnalations as demi-deuil, en brioche and bollito misto, all sagely laid out. Jerome also offers some offbeat recipes for Southern fried chicken that will stir sizzling debate in Dixie...
...champagne with bourbon-soaked chocolate truffles. Anyone who serves anyone such a repast must have a very good boss or richly deserve a raise. Julia also has suggestions for such events as a birthday dinner ("roast duck and a big gooey cake"), a Sunday night supper, a chafing-dish dinner and a buffet for 19, with good ideas about the wines avec. The book goes on to breads and breakfasts, capons and caramel, sherbets and shellfish. Julia, please stop...
...more courses, both larger than the first Richard's feast continued. It included delicacies likes cranes and pheasants, larks and an almond soup. It took all day to eat as dish after dish was scooped up with spoons and fingers. By sunset, the last goblets of wine were brought in and the guests left to make their peace with God and stomach...
Aside from the roasts and baked pies, nearly every dish was what my grandmother used to call hassenpfeffer--a mess, tossed together from mangled remnants of carcasses hidden underneath a spicy sauce that would ideally completely obscure the bastard origins (or incipient rot) of the ingredients heaped on the platter. The feast, rather than the ordinary run of the mill pigout, required hundreds of these "made" dishes, for which most valued praise the cook could receive was if the satisfied diner could not tell what had gone into the original concoction. At a feast given by Henry VIII...