Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitor is munching a newspaper column or two, the "60-Minute Gourmet" department on which Franey and Claiborne collaborate. Three or four mornings a week, Franey, who lives near by with his family, phones Claiborne. A menu begins to take shape from what is available in the local stores. Claiborne says that eastern Long Island has the best food...
...Boulogne is French, save for the croissants, which are delivered hot at dawn in Lausanne, Switzerland, and are sadly soggy. The chef on board is Michel Ranvier, a graduate of the renowned Paris restaurant Jamin; he was approved by Sherwood, who is the author of an excellent gourmet guide to London. The train's general manager is Claude Ginella, formerly with the Savoy in Rome and the Meurice in Paris...
...Howard and Joan Kipp, in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. The package was addressed to Joan, 54, a supervisor of guidance counselors in New York City's public schools. Standing in her kitchen, Mrs. Kipp tore off the brown wrapping paper and found the Quick and Delicious Gourmet Cookbook. She opened the cover. Suddenly there was a flash, and two .22-cal. bullets tore into her chest. Kipp came running into the room and discovered his bleeding wife on the floor, gasping, "A bomb! A bomb!" Three hours later, she was dead...
...voice-over and grade-school graphics, it is the videotape equivalent of a sales manager's audiovisual presentation. Supermarket Insights does not do full justice to material that is ripe with promise. One recent issue documented the adventures of the Safeway chain in branching, out into "an upscale gourmet food store" (complete with a grand opening at which members of the San Francisco Symphony played chamber music) and scrutinized an enterprising New York retailer who launched an "all-kosher superstore" for Passover. Supermarket Insights Co-Founder Paul Reuter reports such success that his company has already fielded...
...about $4 million annually until 1978, when the company started a major marketing program for croissants. Now the company sells 950,000 a week from its bakeries and from 18 retail stores in 13 cities. Vie de France also markets its goods through independent grocery stores, bakeries and gourmet shops. Revenues this year are expected to be nearly $30 million...