Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the Counter. Childs could not have picked a better man than Hennessy to put back the flavor. In his 35 years with the Statler chain, where he began ,as a steward, he spent most of his time showing cooks and waiters how to improve food and service. When the new Hotel Statler opened in Washington, white-aproned Chairman Hennessy put in six months as head chef. Hotels are generally glad to break even on food sales, but Hennessy managed to make 8-10% profit on Statler dining rooms...
Four blocks from Munich's Brown House, the crumbled cornerstone of Naziism, the U.S. Military Government runs Germany's biggest publishing plant. Once its giant presses spewed forth Hitler's venomous Völkischer Beobachter; now they supply Germans with news of a democratic flavor. No force-feeding is needed: Die Neue Zeitung, a thrice-weekly paper; Heute, a picture magazine; Der Monat, a political monthly; and Neue Auslese, a cultural digest, all sell like piping-hot Kartoffelpuffer...
Director Robert Wise has avoided much of the flavor of hokum by handling his gunplay as if it were something really necessary, rather than a Fourth of July display. His actors use horses because they seem to want to get somewhere; they come out of brawls looking mussed. Even Walter Brennan, a master of easy tearjerking, plays this one fairly straight...
...Kirkland central kitchen is over-centralized, not from the point of view of cold monetary efficiency, but simply from judging the finished meals as lunches or dinners. The number of meals produced per employee is greater in the central kitchen, and the flavor and quality of these meals is definitely inferior. Dispensing meals can never be like building automobiles or libraries, because it is the little extras which spell the difference between good and poor meals. Dishes which have been salted with a shaker always seem tastier than ones in which a pre-determined amount has been dumped and stirred...
...regional flavor as distinctive as the home towns of many of their senders: Contoocook, N.H.; Battle Mountain, Nevada; Olive Branch, Mississippi; Pocatello, Idaho; Vienna, Georgia...