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Tabuteau can usually forget his troubles by eating. A gourmet of parts, he has come to the conclusion that there is no U.S. restaurant which can provide him with a decent meal. "If I want something good to eat," says he, "I cook it myself." He bathes his Poulet Chasseur and Boeuf aux Champignons in vintage wines. One product of this hobby is chronic gout...
...special occasions. . . . The birth of Peter the Great, for example, moved the city fathers of Moscow to dispatch several such huge gingerbreads of "honor," one in the form of the coat of arms of the City of Moscow, another in the form of the double eagle. Louis XIV, a gourmet of parts, restored the French counterpart of gingerbread, pain d'epice, to the place of eminence it had enjoyed for centuries in France...
...traveled up & down the land in a private railroad car, with an entourage to look after him, a cook to provide dishes to his gourmet's taste. Altogether he earned an estimated $5,000,000 in the U.S. alone...
Died. G. Selmer Fougner, 56, U.S. gourmet, conductor, since Repeal, of the New York Sun column "Along the Wine Trail''; of a heart attack; in Washington. In devotion to his exquisite art, Columnist Fougner wrote several books on vinticulture and good living, founded no less than 14 epicurean societies, notably the famed "Les Amis d'Escoffier...
...regal responsibilities as he saw them. He had courage. In Paris once, when a bomb meant for him killed two of his carriage horses, he remarked that bombings were "only the risks of a king's business." In small things, too, he followed the aristocratic pattern, was a gourmet, a dandy, a lady-killer, with a pretty taste in motor cars-all with impeccable taste...