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Reinhart is "housefather" in Winona's luxury apartment, sipping a vermouth cassis-he has forsaken his customary tumblers of bourbon-and garnering a local reputation for the classical cuisine. Hired by high-powered Grace Greenwood to demonstrate gourmet-food preparation in supermarkets, he is shocked to discover that the executive gorgon is Winona's lesbian lover. Blaine's wife has an erotic nervous breakdown in Reinhart's bedroom. Genevieve returns to stage a breakdown of her own. Helen Clayton, his supermarket assistant, bolsters Reinhart's flagging sexuality with motel trysts. A neighbor, Edie Mulhouse...
...philosopher, no mechanician, no student of human affairs; merely . . . cherished for her air of aloofness and that aura of mystery which surrounds her." About the only good thing Cole has to say about the creature is culled from the continental reporter Labouchere, who noted that cats became a gourmet item during the 1870 siege of Paris. Their flavor, he recorded, is "something between a rabbit and a squirrel, with a flavor of its own. It is delicious. Don't drown your kittens. Eat them." Publishing industry sources would not confirm rumors that a book of recipes is being hurried...
...next time you are in Texas to obtain the best ice cream in the world, which is made by the Blue Bell Creameries of Washington County, between Austin and Houston. Texans admit that this is true. President Ed Kruse says, "We don't regard our ice cream as gourmet as such but rather as just a damn good product." He starts telling a story about a lady from Anderson, Texas, who moved to the wilds of California and had a friend regularly ship her Blue Bell's damn good product by commercial airliner. Have we heard this story...
...start Hollender was as relentless in recruiting instructors as he is in attracting students. He would walk into a gourmet shop and ask the owner to teach a course in opening a food store. But today experts come to him asking to teach; he accepts only 10% to 15% of the applicants. Teachers earn an average of $30 to $40 an hour, and can make as much as $12,000 a year teaching one course a week. But for many the rewards are more than monetary. Says Rand: "Anyone who works hard all day and enrolls in this kind...
...other hand, when it sees an advantage in doing so, Air Florida will happily offer quite extravagant extras to promote itself on competitive routes. On the line's Miami-to-London run, gourmet foods and vintage wines become part of what the carrier terms its upper-class service. Upon arriving at Gatwick Airport, 25 miles outside London, the plane's disembarking upper-class passengers are whisked free of charge into town in a convoy of chauffeured Rolls-Royces provided by the airline...