Word: epicureans
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...such new-found laws were not about to move Proprietor A. W. Richberg. When the Federal Government sued, Richberg simply renamed the cafe's white section "Dixie Diner Club" and added bylaws promising "the creation of an atmosphere conducive to the development of connoisseurs of discriminating taste and epicurean pleasures." The name was all that Richberg changed...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes a century ago when a rival merchant sought the patronage of that autocrat's famous breakfast table, "and I don't dare change." A bulwark of proper Bostonian life for most of its 136 years, the haute cuisine grocery chain has long filled an epicurean niche in U.S. gastronomy. With its own coat of arms adorning a distinctive red label on canned goods, and the largest line (5,000 items) of privately packed fancy foods in the world, S.S. Pierce sells its delicacies not only through eight New England stores of its own but also...
Edith Palmer's Country Inn, Virginia City, Nev. Rich and exotic dishes, ranging from beef Stroganoff to san-juck, an epicurean dish of the Korean upper class, prepared by Owner Edith Palmer Kolodziej. Expensive...
...leaving the bulk of his estate of more than $1,000,000, including proceeds from the eventual sale of Le Pavilion and his newer Cote Basque, to his widow Olga and sister Madeleine-he bequeathed "a watch to my dear friend J. Edgar Hoover," the FBI's bonded epicurean...
...Last year the firm arranged $604 million worth of corporate mergers, sold $946 million of securities by privately placed financing, and marketed $1 billion in municipal bonds. Top Lehmanites gather daily in what must be one of the New World's most Old World corporate dining rooms, savor epicurean food prepared by a former chef of Le Pavilion restaurant. There they discuss ice-breaking new ways of investing-and making-money. Explains Bobby Lehman: "Investment banking is applying money to ideas and ideas to money, with the seasoning of imagination. In business, nothing happens until the two are mixed...