Word: fillets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...procession over a red carpet into the dining room. There a huge horseshoe table shone with the James Monroe gold flatware (engraved with "The President's House") and gold-rimmed service plates emblazoned with the President's seal. After dinner (chilled pineapple, cream of almond soup, broiled fillet of English sole, roast Long Island duckling, frozen Nesselrode cream with brandied sauce) the President of the U.S., wearing the ribbon and medal of Britain's Order of Merit, rose to toast the Queen. "There have been a few times in my life," said Dwight Eisenhower, "when I have...
...sword because the sole did not arrive in time for an important dinner. When asked what he would have done in Vatel's place, Escoffier did not hesitate. "I would have taken the white meat of chickens-very young chickens," he said, "and I would have made fillet of sole with them. No one would ever have known the difference...
...half-Eskimo, half-Russian. Howland was invited to have dinner. Says he: "It was roasted young bear, garnished with potatoes and gravy, as savory as any dish turned out by Escoffier." On one of his northern trips, Bob Schulman discovered a simple but tasty article called "squaw candy": a fillet of salmon dry-smoked over a low fire...
...Tariff Commission had found that imports from Germany and Italy constituted "a definite threat of serious injury," and recommended doubling the present 42% tariff. President Eisenhower canceled the increase on the ground that no imminent threat was proved. Among the other cases: ¶Fishermen are aroused by groundfish fillet imports (largely from Norway, Canada and Iceland), up from 9,000,000 Ibs. in 1939 to 107 million last year. ¶ Lead and zinc producers complain of shutdowns and layoffs in U.S. mines because "a flood of imports has demoralized the domestic mining industry." ¶ Makers of woolen gloves and mittens...
...Fillet of a fenny snake...