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...France's most brilliant chefs. In all, for up to $900 a stomach, they put away 1,800 bottles of Moët et Chandon 1969 champagne, 4,000 more bottles of red and white wine, 10,000 canapés, 264 Ibs. of caviar, 244 Ibs. of foie gras, one ton of meat, 250 chickens, 250 ducks, 1,322 Ibs. of seafood, 1,322 Ibs. of vegetables, 25,000 petits fours and other gastronomical delights in astronomical quantities...
...instructed large audiences with his intentionally maladroit preparation of elegant food, claret-nipping and well-staged cocky capers. After a three-year sabbatical from television -caused by a near-fatal driving accident-Graham Kerr (rhymes with rare) is back on the tube, this time at a canter. Now, skipping foie gras, fondue and farce, Kerr has a basic, economy-oriented series of five-minute segments called Take Kerr, on view daily throughout Canada and 55 U.S. cities, that concentrates on such dishes as-well, would you believe cabbage surprise...
...police cordon outside the Drouant restaurant in Paris. Inside, another 200 journalists and photographers circulated among the tuxedoed waiters of the establishment, possessor of two proud ** in the Michelin guide. Finally, a representative of the literary ladies and gentlemen who had been deliberating over a luncheon that included foie gras des Landes en gelée au porto, faisan rôti au pommes en liard fromages and profiteroles (enhanced by Bâtard-Montrachet 1970 and Château Nenin 1967) emerged from a private dining room on the third floor, stepped before the microphones and pronounced the verdict...
...knots) passenger liners afloat. The service was superb (the ratio of passengers to crew was less than 2 to 1) and so was the food. The France's gourmet dining rooms, particularly the gold-walled Chambord, ranked among the best restaurants on land or sea, dispensing caviar, foie gras and champagne as if they were going out of style...
...wasted no time cashing in on the tempest in a China teacup. He coined a helpful publicity slogan: "The film that frightened 800 million Chinese." He also invented a few fake Chinese proverbs, attributing them, naturally, to Confucius. Sample axiom: "Marxist philosophy can very easily be reconciled with foie gras. "More seriously, he argued last week: "If the cinema is going to cause diplomatic crises, then it's time to worry about the mental health of the great powers...