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...only natural, therefore, that Columbus people should have taken to gourmet cooking with the gusto of Fellow Ohioan Ulysses S. Grant taking Vicksburg. Ohio State offers for credit classes in French, Italian, German and Chinese cuisine. The International Wine and Food Society has a thriving local chapter, which produces an annual banquet. Cooking classes have lately sprouted in a number of private homes, as well as in a few well-stocked local emporiums such as the French Market and the Cook's Palace...
...three meals a day for 300 people at a Philadelphia convent. She now caters to three children and a businessman husband, Paul, whose family in Buffalo "never had less than six in help." Attorney Robert Holland, who has 225 cases of wine in the cellar of his house, regards gourmet cooking as a way of shaping "taste in the home." He proudly notes that his son Justin, 6, up and ordered escargots at a recent restaurant meal. Justin is obviously a prime candidate for the school's Kids Are Cooks Too! class...
...messy divorce, scored a demi-triumph as a lobbyist for low-income housing before the same Senate subcommittee on which he once sat. Now Brooke is taking a second wife: Anne Fleming, 30, of Saint Martin in the West Indies. Fleming speaks four languages, is a gourmet cook and opera buff. But her husband is obviously as impressed by her political credentials: her great-grandfather, grandfather, father and uncle have all been mayors of French Saint Martin...
...Food & Drink" supplement ran to 48 glossy pages, bubbling with four-color national liquor ads and articles on such pressing concerns as "Fighting the Gourmet Blues" and "A Consumer Guide to Cognac." An insert in the Sunday New York Times? A section in Gourmet magazine? No, just a little light reading from that old, radical, worker-owned collective in Boston, the Real Paper...
...movable mecca, the small, inexpensive, discrete, family owned restaurant with a menu of rare enticements and threefork ambience. The temptation to tell can be strong. John McPhee, 48, author of the bestselling portrait of Alaska, Coming into the Country, and other books, not only is a gentleman but a gourmet and a cook; he is also a compulsive describer. He compromised. In the Feb. 19 New Yorker, McPhee devoted a 25,000-word profile to his favorite restaurant, its pseudonymous owner-chef "Otto" and his sommelière-pâtissière wife, Latvian-born "Anne...