Word: gourmets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, Rene Lacoste and Henri Cochet, French by blood, birth and habit, accustomed to wining with their meals, to puffing tasteless "Maryland" cigarets, to dissipating as only a French gourmet can?these men won the world's highest tennis honors from hardy, ascetic...
...therefore the non-fraternal portion of America is left with a cup of coffee, a sandwich, and a tin plated armchair. The Forum author endeavors to solve the enigma. "To me our main difficulty seems to be a failure to make a distinction between the two words gourmand and gourmet. When we cease to regard eating as something to be done purely out of habit, finding in it instead untold aesthetic delights, our only regret will be that we did not comprehend earlier." So, after all, Harvard's problem may be merely linguistic...
...conducted his restaurant at Fifth Ave. and 44th St., many gentlemen had a way of saying to him, "I am dining 60 tomorrow," or "My daughter's dance will be on the 19th." Directions would have been a useless insult. He knew every debutante, dowager, rake, banker, and gourmet who lived in Manhattan between 1885 and 1915. He chose the wines that J. P. Morgan offered his guests. James Hazen Hyde, one winter night, gave in his restaurant a costume ball which is said .to have been the most brilliant event** in the social history of the city...
Other U. S. musicians similarly decorated are: John Alden Carpenter, composer; Herman Devries, musician, critic, gourmet, raconteur...
...most serious matter." Subversive doctrines these, in this day of eat-and-run lunches, vegetarians, food-cranks. But the proof of the pudding's in the eating, and the proof of Mr. Scotson-Clark's aphorisms is the fact that in all his long and urbane career as a gourmet he has kept health, youth and figure without needing either exercises or doctors. This is a delightful book?suave, discursive, affable, entertaining ? with recipes for such pleasant-sounding dishes as "Uncle Edward's Curry," "Marrow on Toast,'' "Dutch Cordial," "Veal Cutlet a la Charlie Sadler" inserted now and then...