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...domestic meats. To most Americans, the hot dog is the equivalent of Proust's madeleine; it triggers memories of afternoons in the bleachers, and languorous Sundays spent lolling on pic nic grounds. At 170 calories, it is modest enough to be included in a dietary lunch; yet the gourmet James Beard has wrapped a recipe around it: choucroute àl'sacienne. (Translation: sauerkraut with local sausage. Beard prefers franks...
...this issue is correct. It gives one a convenient opportunity to hate the war criminals once a week and perhaps even do a little something about them Hell. I would probably even be willing to try it a couple, three times a week. From a gourmet's standpoint it would certainly be a dietary improvement. But Harvard is an individualistic community. It remains to be seen how many other individuals wish to try this. Steve Bachmann...
...only fair to say, from the standpoint of structural clarity, that they loved individual phrases to the detriment of the overall design--the forest-trees syndrome. The late George Szell, when asked why his interpretations of the classical repertoire could not be warmer in tone, gave a gourmet's response: "I cannot pour chocolate sauce over asparagus." The metaphor, though exaggerated, describes to some degree what happened in the first half of Monday's concert--thick, sensuous topping (quite enjoyable in the proper context) amorphously coating the crisp organic forms of Haydn and Beethoven. I hasten, however, to make...
...total of 24 had assembled for this momentous chapter in the family history. On their first day in Miami Beach, staffers found Eleanor McGovern cooking bacon and eggs for the clan?a task soon taken over by Libby Strauss, a teacher of gourmet cuisine...
...actors are all proficient; Foster's flamboyant Bob, picking his teeth with that tie pin, is particularly telling. There are also Hitchcock's usual moments of high comedy, here involving Inspector Oxford and his wife, who is taking a course in gourmet cookery and assaults her husband's stubbornly English palate with a selection of highly sauced dishes. It is an old joke that would have worn pretty thin but for the performances of Alec McCowen and Vivien Merchant, the most elegant comic acting seen in movies in a long while. " ·Jay Cocks...