Word: epicurean
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...Crustularius, the classic pastry cook, is about 300 years old. It became widespread with the price drop that took sugar out of the luxury class in the 1830's. Such culinary guides as Carême's Maitre d'Hotel francaise, and Ranhofer's Epicurean published elaborate engravings and full directions for making Roman helmets of strawberry ice cream and pistachios, spun-sugar rabbits stuffed with puddings or parfaits, wheelbarrows of pastry filled with sugar roses. The tower of pastry with its 52 candles awaiting President Roosevelt last week was not his first crustularian masterpiece...
...mere adventure story by a long shot, Anthony Adverse is packed full of shrewd comment, tart gossip, homely saws. Thus Carlo Cibo, Havana epicurean, on young man's estate: "My God! . . . did you ever think what a terrible mess a young man really is? I mean a youth. That is - a kind of portable apparatus or attachment to three troublesome globes, one who has just stopped being a mad boy and has not yet been scared into being a decent man. One feels profoundly sorry for him. The only peace he can get is for a few hours after...
...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...
...Lucretius--Poet and Epicurean malgre lui," Prof. Rand, Sever...
...Lucretius-Poet and Epicurean Malgro lui," Professor E. K. Rand, Sever...