Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marc Champagnat, a stout and fastidious retired railroad worker, was the Dr. Johnson of the town of Angoulême A divorcé and a gourmet, Marc and his friends-the undertaker, the fishmonger, the mayor, the lawyer's clerk and the school principal-met so regularly in the tavern called Le Practic that their group became known as Champagnat's Club. Over peppery steak and cognac, Marc would talk endlessly of his philosophies, his past amours, his hobbies-fishing and cooking-and his adventures in the Cameroons. Even the Irish setter Vo-Vo learned to follow...
...where Gourmet Bemelmans used to cook his literary schnitzel only with the finest schmalz, some of Father, Dear Father would make even Charles Dickens clutch his stomach and turn pale (e.g., "I wonder," says Barbara, "if Christ came to earth, could he get a table at Twenty-One?"). Moreover, Poppy's critical eye, which was always whimsically weak, is now rolling toward astigmatism. "It never occurred to me," he groans of Lady Elsie Mendl, ". . . that she, poor darling, was relatively destitute. She left a million . . . but it's peanuts, considering her fashion of living, her travels . . . artisans . . . servants...
...plow through the plankton-like mass of material. The Tin Pan Alley title for the top picker in each record company is "A & R man" (for Artists and Repertory). The A & R man's job is to be music-hungry seven days a week, while maintaining a gourmet's selectivity...
...student at the Sorbonne, he got the nickname Cur Non (Why Not?) because of his debonair pursuit of food and fun. (He added the "sky" a few years later when the Czar's fine fleet came to visit France.) In 1921, already famed as a gourmet, he began to write his masterpiece, France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes. "When you're searching for good places to eat in provincial towns," wrote Curnonsky, "see the doctors, the cabdrivers and the priests. They're the ones who know how to eat." Five years later, when Paris Midi asked France...
Feeling no pangs at the end of his snack, the Prince was given his birthday award-80 copper plaques reserving a permanent place for him in each of Paris' top restaurants. It was little enough, as one admiring gourmet said, for one who has dedicated "a heroic stomach to the service of the French cuisine...