Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the Justices do not consider the issue involved to be important enough. Presler, now 76, suffers from arteriosclerosis and has moved with his second wife to Miami Beach, where Social Security is his principal source of income. He is still undiscouraged. Of late, he has taken courses in gourmet cooking, English and creative writing...
Eating out is also higher. London and Paris restaurant meals in dollar terms have jumped 18%. Dinner for two at Madrid's Horcher Restaurant now averages $19, up $4 from 1970. Yet smorgasbord unlimited at the Hotel Norge in Bergen remains one of the world's great gourmet bargains: it has risen only from...
...print with an excellent but expensive ($36 a year) biweekly newsletter on the joys of eating well. A sort of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sauce Béarnaise But Were Afraid to Ask, the eight-page Craig Claiborne Journal promises a complete course for the conscientious gourmet: recipes for lentil soup as well as filets mignons Grimod de la Reynière, a serialized Dictionary of Gastronomy and reviews of restaurants at home and abroad that Claiborne hopes will ultimately reach from Peoria to Peking. "We mean to amuse and advise," wrote Claiborne...
...true Japanese gourmet, one of life's sweetest pleasures is savoring the dying wriggle of a freshly peeled live shrimp on the tongue. Cooked or raw, the shrimp has for centuries occupied a place of honor in Japan's pantheon of epicurean ecstasies. Lately, however, that wriggly national hero has become a mere prawn in the hands of Japanese commercial interests. Because of huge Japanese demand, shrimp prices round the world are jumping...
...somewhat plodding, precis narrative. As a result, his biography may be mainly read by Hornblower scholars who wish, as it were, to set their very stuns'ls in pursuit of their elusive literary quarry. As for the rest of us, one is put in mind of the French Gourmet Brillat-Savarin, who was once offered grapes for dinner. "Non, merci" he briskly replied, "je ne prends pas mon vin en pilules...