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Buenos Aires reporters clustered around the visiting literary lion and his hostess. How did Graham Greene find the food in Argentina? "I like to drink more than I like to eat," he smiled. "That is a joke," interrupted Victoria Ocampo, noted essayist and editor, "because he has come to a house where the hostess does not touch a drop of alcohol." No kidding, continued Greene, he found the Argentine whisky he was served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed...
...black students at the Summer School dispersed evenly throughout this "overwhelming white sea," as one black woman put it, they would be lost. However, as anyone can see in the dining halls where blacks eat with blacks, they are not lost. They have formed a community of their...
...Anglican clergymen to signal wholesale whoopee. But judging from the Lambeth '68 guidebook, printed to help the bishops when they met last week for their decennial conference in London, somebody expects the old boys to kick up their heels a bit. In the section on where to eat, the Barque and Bite was highly recommended because "you get a sherry on the house while you study the menu." Chez Solange came out as "very, very French" with "ludicrously large helpings, noisy French neighbors and good carafe wine." L'Etoile was billed as "one of the most expensive...
...basis for keeping a kosher household is the Halakah, Judaism's Scripture-based code of 613 religious laws that regulate every facet of life. Among the most detailed provisions of Halakah are its dietary laws. Jews, for example, are forbidden to eat meat and dairy food at the same meal, or from the same dishes. By tradition, an observant housewife must have four sets of dishes, silverware and kitchen accessories: one for meat, one for dairy products, and two sets used only during the season of Passover. To avoid the danger of contamination, meat and dairy dishes must...
...hybrid argot of his own invention.) But Joyce had many voices and no one style; Burgess, for all the richness of his repertoire, writes in a monotone that is no more varied than his fixed point of view. Cleverness ("She breathed on him (though a young lady should not eat, because of the known redolence of onions, onions) onions."), hyperbole ("his insides, like spoilt cats demanding milk as lava begins to engulf the town and the cats with it, complained and switched on a kind of small avant garde chamber piece for muted brass") and poetry ("Out in the gull...