Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...button and a dishwasher scooted out of a cabinet and across the floor. At the press of another button, an automatic floor washer and polisher emerged from another cabinet and scurried about like a creature out of science fiction. "Don't you have a machine that puts food in your mouth and pushes it down?" asked Khrushchev with heavy sarcasm. "This is not a rational approach. These are gadgets we will never adopt...
Rarely has New York, home of showplace restaurants (if not of showplace food), seen anything quite like The Four Seasons. Such architects as Mies van der Rohe. Eero Saarinen and Philip Johnson helped to arrange its five lavish dining rooms (two public, three private). Fifteen trees of different and exotic species ranging up to 18 feet tall wave in the breeze, and $50,000 worth of foliage, from cheese plants to Ficus trees, crowd the Mies chairs and Johnson tables. The walls are covered with an original Jackson Pollock spatter painting called Blue Poles, three surrealistic tapestries by Joan...
...Four Seasons also has food. From goose to mousse, it has one of the highest-priced-and most exotic-menus in high-priced Manhattan, in league with Chambord, Le Pavilion, Colony, Brussels, "21." A typical dinner for two, from Sweet and Sour Pike in Tarragon Aspic ($2.25) through Piccata of Piglet in Pastry ($5.25), to genuine Violets in Summer Snow ($1.75), can easily cost up to $70 with drinks and tips. Seasonal foods and delicacies from all over the world are rushed to the restaurant by plane; its $100,000 wine cellar holds 15,000 bottles. If a visitor...
...Bremen is slower (six days from Southampton at 23 knots) and smaller (32,336 tons) than the old, which carried twice as many passengers (2,231 v. 1,122). But Lloyd plans to pitch its appeal to tourists who want leisurely travel, non-dress-up luxury and fine, hearty food. Probably his best year-round clientele, figures Director Bertram, will be ocean-hopping businessmen who need a respite from the jet pace (some German firms now require executives flying the ocean to return by ship...
...slave. He presents each outrageous new dish-a roast sow. for instance, with a bellyful of live thrushes-displaying all the joy of a labor racketeer showing off the power ashtrays on his Cadillac. The guests snicker at Trimalchio's ostentation-but their faces are smeared from the food they have choked down...