Word: gateau
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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...
...minutes in an efficient mixer and your guests should not mind a short wait.") With the kitchen door safely closed behind us, we dropped our unflappable-host-and-hostess grins and became panting haute cuisine speed freaks. Getting the ice cream out of the molds and onto the gateau genoise only took a moment, and we beat and we beat and as the laughter of the dinner party increased out beyond the doors, the egg whites refused to form their coveted stiff shiny peaks. We beat and we beat, and our guests' voices became louder and at the same time...
...awkward but hardly fatal; for De Gaulle, it would be easy and would hardly change a thing. Sheltered behind Germany, France will have to be defended by NATO's sword and shield, member or not, in the event of Russian attack. So De Gaulle can have his gateau and eat it too. The U.S. simply intends to keep an empty chair waiting for France's return at some future date-A.D.G., or apres De Gaulle...
...CLICK. And one Spanish maid, after long employment had given her confidence, approached her mistress and asked her why on several occasions she had been ordered to put the family cat in the icebox. It is easy to see why the cat was cold. Gato is Spanish for cat; gateau is French for cake...