Word: frugalities
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Most Visible Gourmet. Jeff Smith of Seattle, the lanky, gray-bearded, cackle- voiced Methodist minister who calls himself the Frugal Gourmet, entered millions of American homes via his still running how-to series on PBS. All four of his precise, tip-laden and irrepressibly cheerful cookbooks -- The Frugal Gourmet, The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine, The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American and The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines -- hit best- seller charts, with hard-cover sales of 3.4 million...
...unable to generate many offensive opportunities against the frugal Harvard defense. Cornell's best chances were thwarted by the acrobatic antics of Reilly...
...realistic plan to cut the budget deficit. That will take some doing. When a perplexed Pharaoh awoke from his dream-filled sleep, Joseph advised the ruler to store food from coming harvests against the time of want. At the moment, no Joseph is available to persuade Washington to adopt frugal habits, even when the fat years are in danger of turning to lean ones...
...people are brave enough to risk a $3 haircut at the local barber college, and fewer still will opt for cut-rate root-canal work done by a student at a dental-school clinic. But a growing cadre of frugal gourmets from Montpelier to San Francisco is finding that meals in culinary-school restaurants can be very tasty deals indeed. A senior's sauce may need a soupcon of salt, or a nervous freshman waiter may tip over your water goblet, but for the most part, cooking-school eateries provide an interesting ambience and fine cuisine at half the price...
...ahead of schedule. Despite a net worth estimated at $4 million, Baker is notoriously frugal. When he went to Washington to become Ronald Reagan's chief of staff, Baker and his wife lived briefly in two rooms without a phone at a Christian Fellowship house. His Foxhall Road residence wasn't ready, and the Bakers wanted to save "about $7,000 in hotel bills." Now, at the ranch, Baker says he is thinking of heading back to Washington a few hours early. "O.K.," says Susan, "but remember we got those supersaver fares, Jimmy. It'll cost extra." "Oh, right," says...