Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, this is the prettiest railroad country in the world," says Woody Vinson, who by this time certainly should know. He is gazing over a plate of Traditional Trainman's French Toast, past the plastic yellow rose, out the window of the dining car of the California Zephyr as it leaves Salt Lake City behind and makes for the mountains. The tables are full of people ignoring their breakfast, a comment less on the quality of the food than on the galactic beauty of the scene outside. Vinson and his wife Lois are on their way home to Memphis...
...those who recall the white-linen days of yore, the dining car is a disappointment. The tables are covered with blue plastic, the meals served on beige plastic dishes. But the food is hearty, and some standards survive, like the thick French toast and trout served in the mountains. Anyone who suffered the vending-machine fare of the 1970s appreciates the fact that the food is prepared -- or at least thawed -- on board, with good sirloin steaks grilled to order in the evenings...
BABETTE'S FEAST From Isak Dinesen's tale of two spinsters and their mysterious French cook, Gabriel Axel has brewed a quietly delectable comedy...
...recipes reveal "a cuisine of striking richness, refinement, sophistication and artistry," said Jean Bottero, a French assyriologist...
...double -- I was going to say handicap, but I'll say blessing -- of being black and Catholic." His mother was from Biloxi, and his father, a baker, moved there from Puerto Rico. The young Marino grew up in a cultural and religious tradition derived from the early Catholic French and Spanish settlers, and he still lights up when he talks about Creole gumbos and rice. "I took in my faith like my mother's milk," he says. "Some of my earliest recollections are of my family kneeling around the bed praying to Mary, when I was too small even...