Word: filet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
Potatoes Anglaise cucumber, filet Chateaubriand with truffles, mashed potatoes, spinach with poached egg, escalope of sweetbreads Bordelaise, fresh peas, and to wash it down, frozen claret punch...
Unhappily, the sailors in the painting, like Mr. Cadmus, are employees of the Government, and the Navy Department has spent a lot of time and money in combatting the tradition that its ship personnel on shore leave habitually disports itself with liquor and the ladies of the yellow filet. Admiral Rodman, who qualified as an art critic by commanding the naval forces overseas in the World War, complained that the picture originated in the imagination of one who knew nothing about sailors and their habit of spending shore leave playing ping-pong in the Y.M.C.A. The Secretary of the Navy...
Cooper & Robins. Host at the banquet was genial Soviet-famed Engineer Col. Hugh L. Cooper as president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Guests paid $5.50 per plate for a dinner which included Beluga Caviar spread thin on toast.† Borsch (beet soup) and Filet of Beef Stroganoff. Guest Litvinoff said that Host Cooper's services "are already inscribed in the geography of the Soviet Union and endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia...
...absence of Secretary of State Hull, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin escorted Mrs. Roosevelt in to her first State dinner. Mrs. Roosevelt had chosen pink chrysanthemums and pompons for her table decorations. Her menu: clear soup with whipped cream, Thinsies, filet of trout, tomatoes & cucumbers, turkey, green beans, creamed cauliflower, sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, cream cheese balls & pineapple salad, beaten biscuits, ice cream & cake...