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...some very cultivated palates, however, yogurt's main virtue is its taste. Gourmet Craig Claiborne says it is "a sensational ingredient for cooking." Food Critic Gael Greene cautions that it cannot be compared with foie gras, or homemade butter-pecan ice cream. But she says that she breakfasts on yogurt "every disciplined morning," adding, "yogurt is definitely a best friend -but not a lover...
Died. John Aloysius Costello, 84, twice Prime Minister of Ireland and former leader of the conservative Fine Gael party; of cancer; in Dublin. After his surprise victory in 1948 over his longtime rival, Fianna Fail Leader Eamon de Valera, Costello quipped, "I feel rotten. Last Saturday I was a free man." But he energetically pursued his task, breaking Ireland's final constitutional link to Britain with the repeal of the External Relations Act. Costello lost the prime ministership to De Valera in 1951, won it back in 1954, lost it again in 1957 and quit politics...
...favorite male chauvinist taunt is that men make not only the best chefs (Carêeme, Escoffier) but the most demanding gourmets too. To kill the latter canard, New York magazine's food maven Gael Greene helped organize a ladies' feast at Manhattan's posh Four Seasons restaurant. One of France's premier chefs (helas, un homme), Paul Bocuse, whose Lyons restaurant bears his name as well as the Guide Michelin's esteemed three stars, flew over the day before the banquet burdened with such Gallic specialties as pate de foie gras, truffles, Mediterranean bass...
...Gael Greene, New York magazine's Insatiable Critic: "When I want meat, I want a steak. But when I want a hamburger, I want a Big Mac. It has all those disreputable things-cheese made of glue, Russian dressing three generations removed from the steppes, and this very thin patty of something that is close enough to meat. It's an incredibly decadent eating experience. And I love the malts-thick, sweet and ice-cold. They're better than if they were real...
...involved himself in the Irish struggle for independence and paid for it with a martyr's death. Erskine Childers, who is a member of the conservative Fianna Fail, which lost control of the government three months ago, defeated Thomas O'Higgins, the candidate of the governing Fine Gael and Labor coalition, by a vote of 636,162 to 587,577. When he starts his seven-year term later this month, Childers will succeed Eamon de Valera, 91, who has dominated Irish public life for half a century...