Word: hoggish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Bocuse, who brought to French cooking a new emphasis on freshness and simplicity (TIME, April 9, 1973)-and in 1975 received the Legion of Honor from President Giscard d'Estaing. The orgiastic bouffe-meals that would consume long hours of relentless, if not hoggish stuffing of the gullet-got its just desserts. Then Guérard, a close friend of Bocuse's, carried la nouvelle cuisine further by finding ways to cut the calories while maintaining the highest order of taste. Now, says an admiring Bocuse: "For the first time, cuisine and dieting are no longer contradictions...