Word: gras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to Gourmet Magazine Editor Jane Montant, boeuf bourguignon and coq au vin were the fashionable dishes in the 1950s, only to give way to the vogue for paella in the 1960s. Right now, the rage across the U.S. is beef Wellington, a filet slathered with pate de foie gras and baked in a pastry crust. Manhattan Hostess Mrs. Bartley C. Crum, who sends out Menus by Mail to 6,000 subscribers in 45 states (among them: Jacqueline Kennedy, Ilka Chase and Pauline Trigere), currently recommends beef Wellington along with Indonesian pork sate, but varies her suggestions with more unusual...
...Orleans, for instance, there will be a brunch in honor of one or another New Orleans debutante every Sunday from now through Mardi gras. "I think people got tired of cocktail parties," says Mrs. Max M. Green, who gave a deb brunch at the New Orleans Country Club last week. In Chicago, when ever the Bears play at home, members of the Racquet Club gather for a brunch of Bloody Marys, eggs Benedict, codfish cakes and popovers, before bussing out to the football game. In San Francisco, Trader Vic's restaurant has made a tradition out of the annual...
...long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were Moët & Chandon champagne ('59 and '61) and reds and whites from the Crimea...
...Social Governor." Though the state has a heavily Roman Catholic electorate (50%), the Republican ticket was artfully assembled to appeal to just about every religious and ethnic group. Gen gras, like Dempsey, is a Catholic, and so are the Republican candidates for lieutenant governor and comptroller, John Gerardo and Tom Mayers. The nominee for attorney general is a Negro, William Graham, and the secretary of state's slot is filled by Mrs. Phyllis Shulman, a Jew. J. Tyler Patterson Jr., running for treasurer, is the only old-line Yankee. Though he contributed $5,000 to Dempsey...
...Towser, who picked up some pretty fancy habits from his master. He pads around the mansions wearing a brandy and a créme de menthe keg (in case anyone wants to stir up a stinger), and, explained Clegg, "he does love pâté de foie gras and caviar. He drools terribly if you serve either...