Word: fillet
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...about the Fillet-O-Fish Sailing Regatta. Maybe they'll replace the pot of beans with a large order of French fries for that annual Boston collegiate hockey tournament in the Garden. Colonel Sanders instead of Snatch...
...American who has lived in France since 1951, Olney is a rare newcomer who has found acceptance with the U.S. cooking establishment on his first publication. Too many people, Olney thinks, confuse grande cuisine with "Grand Palace, or international hotel cooking." The truth is that Escoffier never found fillet of beef in pastry fit for Wellington or anyone else, and virtually nothing-except an occasional intemperate chef-came out of the kitchen in a blaze of brandy...
...really arrived when, after opening night, he visited the elegant Biffi Scala, which is to Milano operagoers what Sardi's is to Broadway theater. At his appearance, the chef marched out of the kitchen, cried "Bravissimo, maestro!" and pointed to the latest addition to the menu-a beef fillet smothered in a sauce made of mustard, cognac, sour cream and a heavy dose of pepper. Its name: bistecca Enrico Lewis...
...leaders of Russia, sneered the Chinese, were "selling horse meat as beefsteak, displaying a lamb's head while actually selling fillet of dog." In Mao Tse-tung's somewhat mixed-up butcher-shop imagery, that meant that the Red meat of true Marxist-Leninism was still being supplanted by goulash a la Khrushchev...
...class of 1907. Having been chosen for his brawn and skill to manage the span of affectionate but spirited Arabian horses, this charioteer, who also drives an automobile, chose in turn to wear his driver's license, a white celluloid button, usually worn on coat lapel, pinned to his fillet at midpoint of his forehead where, as it glanced and gleamed in the sunlight, the spurious interpolation was doubtless supposed by the audience to be some antique jewel of fabulous value...