Word: epicureans
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...hardly overpaid-but then how many chefs can boast that they slept in the White House for nearly five years? René's reign was not seriously threatened until last October, when Mrs. Mary Kaltman, an old family friend and a veteran director of foods at such epicurean establishments as Harlingen Air Force Base and Austin's Driskill Hotel-whose manager describes her as "real good on food and labor costs"-was appointed White House "food coordinator" and kitchen economizer...
...Roman, Epicurean, supercilious," sighs the publisher's preface. "The Jet Set is passé. Today you have the Restless Set, those people who are bored with the banal." So saying, Editor-Publisher Igor Cassini, 50, bored and restless ever since 1964 when he was fined $10,000 as an unregistered agent for Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, launched his new magazine Status. It had pieces by Lucius Beebe and Cleveland Amory, who go all the way back to Café Society, and some instructions on giving yourself the "Go-Go-ciety look" ("float about carefree in tiny doll dresses...
Eating out in France has become a financial torment as well as an Epicurean pleasure. Restaurants tack on extra charges for everything from napkins to green vegetables, and les additions have risen higher than souffles. Disturbed by the 9% rise in restaurant prices in the last year compared with a hike in overall living costs of 2.5%, Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing has decided to broaden France's 14-month-old price-stabilization program to cover menus. Last week hard-eyed government inspectors set out all over France to make certain that the nation...
...contemporaries. But as the buccinator novi temporis (trumpeter of a new age), he is without an equal, and the next three centuries rightly regarded him as the seer, or even the poet, of science. Although he is reputed to be the father of the English essay, he despised the Epicurean life to which most of the essayists have been temperamentally inclined. He was at home in a heroic age, and scorned to be found anywhere but at intellectual headquarters...
...districts glow in gaudy neon. Fun-loving citizens fill dozens of giant cabarets, one of which offers 800 hostesses to entertain customers, or ogle the sights from a 338-ft. observation tower, the symbol of the city's growth. Osaka's myriad restaurants are noted for their epicurean meals-and it is just as well. The new trains from Tokyo carry buffet stalls but no dining car. Reason: the railway claims that its trains go too fast to leave time for full-course dinners...