Word: dished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming out of his reveries at the café, Gaston ponders his experiences aboard La Douce, sips a little hot wine, and wonders if he can now get an extra disability allowance. Author Ferret has turned his escapist tale with wit and grace. No dish for the literal-minded, it is, in the words of one enthusiastic English reviewer, "a soufflé with sail...
...Revenge," Italy's late King Victor Emmanuel III once said, "is a dish that should be eaten cold." Palmiro Togliatti, kingpin of Italy's Communists, followed this royal precept last week when it came time to punish a rebel in his court...
...party conference a fortnight ago, he rashly got himself identified with party diehards, who want to discard Palmiro Togliatti's "soft" policy for tough methods (TIME, Jan. 24). Because Moscow has decreed there should be no public quarrel now, Comrade Togliatti waited his chance to serve a cold dish to Pietro Secchia...
...Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), shows how an Episcopal Scotsman can hopscotch his engaging way through a comic novel as if he were the hero of a minor Greek tragedy. The hero is Strang Nairne Methuen. As a young lieutenant, he is full of wide-eyed piety, but a shapely dish can stir up his belief in "tart for tart's sake." As a brigadier, he wears a monocle, but is intelligent enough to look at the world with both eyes open. His nemesis takes the repulsive form of Claude Hermiston, a bully, a cad and a craven. It is Strang...
Leave the Pie Alone. The Swansons have done well in the kitchen because they are cooks themselves and know a cook's problems. Both were taught to cook by their mother, and they still spend hours in their test kitchen trying out new dishes. Before any new product is put on sale, it is passed on by a panel of hotel chefs and a group of 1,200 specially chosen housewives around the nation. After a dish is on the market, buyers flood Swanson headquarters with a thousand letters of advice every day. Wrote one worried New Jerseyite...