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Word: fillets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most illustrious restaurants. The article, as if written by Brillat-Savarin and annotated by Asimov, recounted in minute and salivating detail Otto's preparation of dozens of dishes from his repertory of 600: coulibiac, the Russian hot fish pie; osso bucco; paella à la marinara; veal cordon bleu; fillet of grouper oursinade (with sea urchin roe); smoked shad-roe pâté mousse; mussels à la poulette (with a veloute sauce); octopus al amarillo; conch chowder; and numerous other marvels. McPhee also reported the chefs irreverent comments on several New York restaurants, including Lutece, which Otto accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Devouring a Small Country Inn | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

After a final song by Ann-Margret -whom one wag nominated for a special award, "Best Body on an Adult" -the winners and losers moved on to the Beverly Hilton for some salmon mousse and fillet. Just as they were sitting down in their gowns and tuxedos, an equally elegant bunch was drifting out of Manhattan's Tavern on the Green, where Superagent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar had invited 200 of his closest friends-including Bianco Jagger, Truman Capote, Polly Bergen, Yul Brynner, Walter Cronkite and Lee Radziwill -to help him celebrate his 70th birthday and to watch the awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1977 | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...California jamboree, attended by 15,000 people at the site of an old gold mine 90 miles north of Los Angeles, chili heads, as fanciers call themselves, stirred up chile con possum, rabbit, chicken, pork, rattlesnake, ham hocks, jerky and Portuguese sausage. An Arizona chef used fillet of road runner; the Tennessee champion boasted of his raccoon. The Hawaiian contingent made its stock (it said) from a "tired Samoan fighting cock." Californian and Texan experts used some 40 varieties of chili peppers, ranging from the relatively mild Big Jim to a Tahitian product that would blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Montezuma Manna | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

...brash ads open a new battle in a marketing war that so far has been fought mostly over menus. Jack's officials claim that Jack's Bonusburger begat McDonald's Big Mac-but concede that McDonald's Fillet O'Fish begat the Moby Jack. In early morning skirmishes, Breakfast Jacks fight Egg McMuffins. In its ads, Jack long tried to counter Ronald McDonald with Rodney Allen Rippy, a five-year-old who demonstrated on TV his inability to stuff a Jumbo Jack burger into his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Jack v. Mac | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...lends itself to long-term co-existence, an existence that excludes off-Islanders. Aliens are not wise to the shallowness of water over there or the good fishing over here. Islanders know, and wouldn't be foolish enough to ground their boats, pick up poison ivy, or try to fillet an eel for supper...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: No Man Is a Vineyard | 9/18/1974 | See Source »

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