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Says Craig Claiborne, food editor of the New York Times: "Gourmet cooking at home is a movement that has arrived. Samuel Johnson's statement, 'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner,' is suddenly becoming true in America. People are much more serious today about the quality of their lives, and their pleasures nowadays have to do with the quality of their lives." In Atlanta, says Jean Thwaite, food editor of the Constitution, "it's a real challenge and a status symbol to come up with something your company hasn't tasted before...
Finkelstein started his campaign in Macy's basement, one of the first bargain basements in U.S. retailing. He abolished it and created the Cellar, actually a tiled "street" lined with spacious shops for gourmet food, cutlery, stationery and kitchenware and an art gallery. At one end is a reasonably accurate replica of P.J. Clarke's, the Irish pub in midtown Manhattan that stands just as it was built in the 1890s. Demonstrations run continually: a potter handcrafts vases in the pottery shop. On upper floors came other changes: a massive children's store on six, divided into...
...Preparation-wise, it may be better on the road, but there's still nothing to replace a home-cooked meal no matter how gourmet-ish the restaurant...
...hundreds of booths displaying such gastronomical luxuries as pate de foie gras from the Gascogne and oysters from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly 9,300 new members were signed up during the two-day Red fete, which was attended by 1.5 million people. Boasted one party recruiter: "Ours is a Communism with joie de vivre...
...Spartanburg, S.C., do not limit themselves to just the usual American holidays. Last week, for instance, a few days after the Fourth of July, they all turned out for Bastille Day. French Consul Jacqueline Dietrich borrowed a spit from a German neighbor, ordered supplies from Franz Kastner's gourmet delicatessen (Perrier water, lox and asparagus), invited the Swiss consul and representatives from Spartanburg's 40 European companies to celebration and song. Rudolf Mueller, manager of Menzel, Inc., a German-owned plant that makes textile machinery, was not there this time, but his mind was fixed on next October...