Word: filet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Filet of English Sole, Glacée Véronique...
Porto et Poires. Renowned in Washington not only for her looks and her style, but for her abilities as a hostess, Madame Alphand turned out a dinner that had Francophiles kissing their finger tips in joy. It was, in short, les works: a delicate jole gras from Landes, a filet de boeuf Charolais sous la cendre garni renaissance, accompanied by a profound Chateau Gruaud-Larose en magnum 1952; an unassuming little hearts-of-lettuce salad with mimosa dressing. And for a windup, poires Mona Lisa-poached pears, swaddled in hot chocolate sauce, bundled into a pastry shell-trailed...
...housewife knows that she can get a tender steak by paying the butcher a small fortune for a fork-soft filet. She can also buy cheap bottom round and use a chemical to undermine its resistance. Chemically tenderized meats are now standard in restaurants and on many home dinner tables, but few chefs or housewives realize that the harmless industrial enzymes that make their meat tender-many of them now marketed in powder form for home use-rank with the subtlest tricks of modern chemistry...
There are 70 eating places on the grounds, not counting, an elaborate Food Circus with 60-odd food bars. "Beefsteak saute with button mushrooms, filet of sole Marguerite and crab Louis are nonchalantly dispensed by bill-changing vending machines in 18 kiosks. Elsewhere, visitors may buy fish and chips, Mongolian steak, Belgian waffles, Cyrillic-alphabet soup from Yugoslavia, and Seattle scones...
Awakened at 2 a.m. from a sound sleep, Glenn had eaten a hearty breakfast (orange juice, poached eggs, a small filet mignon) with a surprise guest, Marine Corps Commandant David M. Shoup. The astronaut underwent a final physical examination, then began squeezing into his silver space suit. At 5:12 a.m. Glenn entered the capsule ("You don't get in it," he once joked, "you put it on'') and began his long wait...