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...career when he saw this fallacy, Author Lin now regards any attempt to separate the two as "confusing, unintelligible and untrue." "Happiness for me," he says, "is largely a matter of digestion. ... I would prefer pork to poetry, and would waive a piece of philosophy for a piece of filet...
Another money-raising device was adopted last week when Chairman James A. Farley sat down with 1,300 other Democrats in Philadelphia's Penn Athletic Club. They ate fruit cocktail, consomme, filet mignon, two vegetables, combination salad, dessert and coffee and they paid a minimum of $100 apiece for the meal. Gross proceeds: $130,000 plus...
...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...