Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mushroom that is not snow white, cellophane wrapped and supermarket sanitized. In the past few years, however, the succulent edible fungi that grow wild for the picking in almost every part of the country have found ever increasing acceptance in restaurant and home menus. At Dean & DeLuca, a Manhattan gourmet emporium that sells up to 100 Ibs. of fresh domestic wild mushrooms a week, Produce Purchasing Manager Lee Grimsbo notes, "People are beginning to think of them as a cooking item rather than something exotic." Patrick Terrail, owner of Hollywood's Ma Maison restaurant, had been importing dried mushrooms...
Unlike Sir Francis Chichester, the late great British circumnavigator who spliced the main brace with gin, rum, whisky, brandy, wine and beer, Jeantot consumed no liquor during the trip; through heavy spray and parching sun, however, he remained a heavy smoker of unfiltered Gauloises. Bachelor Philippe is no gourmet, preparing three shipboard meals a day from one can each of vegetables, meat and dessert, heated on his butane stove and forked out of the can directly to save dishwashing. Jeantot's only hedonistic indulgence was a cassette player, with which he regaled himself with favorites that ranged from Pink...
...Until O'Neill's wife moved from Cambridge to Washington, he and Boland were the city's version of the odd couple: the disheveled Speaker and the natty Congressman shared a house for 24 years. The delegation's only Republican, Congressman Silvio Conte, is a gourmet cook who invites the O'Neills over for dinner. Says Conte: "We all have a tremendous relationship. And it makes our delegation one of the most powerful in Congress...
Also on UTV are "Visions," a program or which student filmmakers show their work and discuss it, and "The High-Rise Ranger," which is "rather like the Galloping Gourmet," Simensky said...
Some 10 wealthy passengers have each paid $15,000 for a 10-day cruise through the Mediterranean aboard the Narcissus. The luxurious ship provides both musical and gastronomical delights. A virtuoso pianist and a renowned diva perform nightly to passengers who dine on gourmet food and turn adulterous in the moonlight. Indeed, affair after affair develops among the passengers...