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...trendy, fiercely competitive world of grande cuisine. After only 1% years of operation, the Restaurant Michel Guérard at the spa in Eugenie-les-Bains near Lourdes is about to receive a top rating of 19 points in this year's edition of the Guide Gault-Millau, France's sprightliest food publication. (The spa also has a gourmand menu for the calorie-careless.) The more conservative and authoritative Guide Michelin, which awarded two stars to Guérard's first restaurant, Le Pot au Feu, outside Paris, has just given two stars to the Eugenie...
...voyage capped four years of effort by Gourmet-Author Henri Gault (TIME, Nov. 19,1973). Gault and his colleague Christian Millau have become known through their guidebooks and monthly magazine as the evangelists of la nouvelle cuisine française which celebrates practicality and provincial simplicity in reaction against the ornate, heavy, highly stylized haute cuisine of French tradition. To make Mermoz a ship of drools, Gault lured aboard...
...rard and Bocuse, were crowned by such main courses as fondue de gigot d'agneau aux aubergines, volatile de Bresse and aiguillette de caneton au vin de Graves, for a total of 19 courses. Guerard's meal was adjudged the best of the trip by Gault, who gave it 19¾ points out of a possible 20. Fortunately, reported TIME'S gourmet-onboard, George Taber, dinner was over before a storm hit the Gulf of Genoa, sending many of the guests to their cabins...
...bathing rated two stars -most of the gourmets attended gastronomic "forums" where, often heatedly, they discussed such matters of faith as the correct temperature for serving champagne (46°-50° F. v. 50°-54° F.), whether smoking between courses dulls the palate (not at all, said Gault), and why there were not more top women chefs (because, snapped Bocuse, "they always make the same recipe their mother and grandmother and great-grandmother used...
...more than a million dollars' worth of Southern California's $38 million crop, and police estimate that one out of every five avocados in the state's supermarkets is a hot one. "It's like growing half-dollars on trees," says Detective Lieut. John Gault of San Diego County, which produces 70% of California's crop...