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...Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; of heart disease; in Manhattan. From the ship's galley, to a Bordeaux Inn, to the great kitchen school of Escoffier in Monte Carlo's Grand Hotel, he rose to officiate at London's Savoy and Carlton Hotels, Paris' Ritz and for royalty. Best known Gastaud dish on the Waldorf menu: "The Black Pot," a highly seasoned bean stew...
...spirit really onlookers." Onlooker Boleslavski found that the scenes were vivid though the play was bad. One of the scenes: Near the officers' mess lived an old man who had, besides large greenhouses for raising cucumbers, a pretty young wife. Every time an officer enjoyed her favors a dish of fresh cucumbers would appear at table. The Colonel innocently complained about so many cucumbers, but one day an enormous dish was served up with his compliments. The officers choked with laughter. After the Russian Revolution, when the jealous greenhouse-keeper became executioner of the Tribunal of that town, whenever...
Under the eye of watchful technicians, "Fuzzie," a gray Angora cat, is allowed to eat from a dish of pulverized fish in milk set upon delicate scales which are arranged to inscribe a curve representing the rate of consumption on a cylinder. If an auto horn is blown it is found that the blast "eliminates the cat's desire to eat," and a disturbance is consequently recorded in the hyperbole. Bausfield revealed that the hyperboles are of the catenary variety...
...killed and more than a few seriously injured. The immediate cause given for the uprising was the fact that the inmates had found their porridge unpalatable when served without sugar. Though it is to be admitted that prison porridge devoid of the usual appurtenances is probably not an appealing dish when served up, this, as a primary cause, does not sound convincing. Epicurean affrontry must only have been the under that set off a conflagration which was long in building...
King George drew Guest Gandhi into the royal study. There the King-Emperor took a dish of tea, the Mahatma sucked in a bowl of goat's milk sent up from the palace kitchen...