Word: gateau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about their threat to walk out of the talks the moment the first U.S. missiles were in place-and perhaps before. In late October, Kvitsinsky was dining at Nitze's Geneva apartment along with Norman Clyne, a close aide to Nitze, and his wife Alice. Just as the gateau d 'orange dessert was about to be served, Mrs. Clyne jokingly told Kvitsinsky that he would not get his portion unless he revealed when the long-threatened walkout would take place. Kvitsinsky said he did not want to forgo dessert, and announced that the negotiations would end between...
...Desserts (Knopf; $17.50) has two equally good apple tarts: one, with an apricot glaze, might belong on the Thanksgiving or Christmas table. The book's most celebrated item will undoubtedly be her French chocolate loaf cake, the result of "a lifelong search" for the recipe for a particular gateau sold at a French pastry shop in New York City...