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Dedicated to basic cooking for beginners, it proves that the simple need not be banal. Typical of his techniques is the use of flavorful herb and spice butters to accent carefully broiled fish and meat. Characteristically, he placed as much importance on a properly cooked and seasoned hamburger as on a delicate blanquette de veau. He practically invented the position of food consultant, advising restaurant owners on their menus and food manufacturers on their products. It was for this consulting role that he was occasionally criticized, especially when the products and menus he endorsed or created were lauded...
Journal editors said last week that Mobil's move would not hinder their reporting efforts. Said Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine: "The fact that we don't always print articles the way Herb Schmertz or his staff writes press releases should come as no surprise to anybody. We'll certainly continue to ask Mobil for comment when it is appropriate. It is an important company...
...summer the same ranchers complain endlessly to Madison that "his elk" are grazing on their cattle pastures. In winter they blame him when hungry elk and deer are busting their fences and devouring their haystacks. "It's not that folks don't like Jeff personally," says Herb Hughley, who operates the Valley Motel on Highway 13, which runs through Meeker. "But they don't like bureaucrats in Denver making laws about what they can and cannot do here...
...Herb W. David...
...exceptional woman was forced to assert herself against all the odds. Annual pregnancy was the general rule; contraceptives were not widely introduced until the 18th century. Until then, couples relied on recipes−marjoram, "thyme, parsley, the juice of the herb savin−that did little good. A study of aristocratic women suggests that 45% died before 50, one-quarter of those in childbirth. If perpetual pregnancy did not do a woman in, smallpox well might. Life expectancy was 35. If a 17th century woman should survive to old age, she was in danger of being taken for a witch...