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Family of Flies. In a lighter mood, Scanlan's accompanies a health inspector on a kitchen tour of Manhattan restaurants. Next to stars awarded by New York Times Gourmet Craig Claiborne, Scanlan's gives its own uncleanliness symbols: garbage cans. The worst offender (three stars, four garbage cans): the outwardly elegant Colony, where "in the bakeroom a family of flies was eating out of open bowls of strawberries in heavy syrup...
...food is one of the only arts which we don't, and can't, overintellectualize. Because we transfer our reactive mechanism from the mind/eye to the eye/nose/stomach/soul, our appreciation of the art is neither diminished by an inferior education nor a weak mind. There is room for the neophyte gourmet, the connoisseur, the glutton, the macrobiotic, the fat and the lean...
Bundle for Britain. In person, Kaplan, son of a Manhattan textile man, is hardly as flamboyant as his productions. He takes a novice gourmet's interest in food and wine, but he lives simply in a three-bedroom bachelor apartment. He plays the harpsichord and is studying Japanese because he feels that Japan will be "the country of the future." He muses about how he might help "to unlock some of those billions managed by our readers so that they benefit society instead of private interests." To that end, he is investigating ways of directing investments into city slums...
...screech owl. For one thing, how do you know what the bird is thinking when, say, he shreds a piece of spinach into 55 fragments before leaving it? Or why he reacts with evident horror to the sight of an upright moving stick? Or why, though something of a gourmet, Owl once consumed a lucky rabbit's foot down to the metal clip? "Since I can't get a reasonable answer, I suggest he doesn't know why himself," observes Service, adding judiciously: "Perhaps he is losing his mind...
...Bunting stated that "extra cooks are ordinarily used for special dinners when two meals must be prepared." In fact, Master Baxter's weekly gourmet dinners this term in South House have been prepared (along with the regular dinner) by a staff of two, except for two instances when three cooks were on (coincidentally) for a sit-down...