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...system. Almost equally important is a premonition that many of the best things about Britain-the peaceful villages, easygoing work habits, the uncommon civility that graces British life-will be endangered by EEC membership. There is a positive dread that chattering Frenchmen would monopolize London's sidewalks, that garlic-eating Italians in careering Alfa Romeos would shatter the tranquillity of the rustic British countryside, and that those too-efficient Germans would brusquely alter the cozy tea-break routine of British workers...
...heart attack; in Manhattan. A successful concert pianist with a passion for cooking, Field started a culinary school and in 1964 turned his full attention to classic cuisine. He produced a series of literate cookbooks and debunked such myths as the need to wash mushrooms, devein shrimp and press garlic. He preached imaginative uses for leftovers, such as Armenian lamb pie made from roast leg of lamb. His books include Michael Field's Cooking School, Michael Field's Culinary Classics and Improvisations and All Manner of Food. With his wife, Frances, he wrote the TIME-LIFE book...
...most recent years, trying to find a good play at a Paris theater has been like trying to find a good bowl of soup at a Paris bistro. The great tradition turns out to be little more than a memory tasted through grease and garlic. The current season began like that...
...consists of essays on 15 categories of food-such as lemons, chocolate, garlic, potatoes, shellfish, mushrooms, nuts, cheese-followed by recipes. The essays offer detailed information about the properties of each food and how it reacts to mixing and heating. The would-be cheese cook who achieves Silly Putty instead of a creamy liquid is told among other things to avoid several common varieties and to buy others, notably Cheddar, only when aged. The section on the mysterious ways of chocolate might have been written by a scientist. In fact, after finishing Field, the reader may feel more like...
...York Film Festival is a peculiar combination of international no-talents and geniuses, a show, in T.S. Eliot's phrase, of "garlic and sapphires in the mud." Last week, at its opening, the garlic was very much in evidence. This week some sapphires glint...