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...moving dining room." With meals like poached salmon and beef stroganoff -- in coach class, no less -- Alaska Airlines spends $7.80 a customer on food, about $3 more than the average for U.S. carriers. This has allowed Erbe, who trained in the kitchens of Hamburg's Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten (Four Seasons), to add venison, pheasant and Cajun catfish as first-class entrees...
...Frankfurt, who has become the leading European importer of strawberries, plans to charter about 20 Boeing 707s this spring to carry 1,600,000 Ibs. from California to the Continent. There is a growing demand among dessert-loving West Germans for U.S. strawberries: Hamburg's Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten prefers serving them because, says Chef Oskar Behrmann, "they have the best aroma." Between March 1 and May 10, the big season for imported strawberries in Germany, the U.S. berries virtually eclipse the scrawnier varieties from Mexico and Israel...
Georg Walterspiel, co-owner of Munich's famed old Vier Jahreszeiten, predicts that new U.S. hotels will create "murderous competition in the top class." To meet the American competition, five foreign airlines-BOAC, British European Airways, Lufthansa, Alitalia and Swissair-have teamed up with the London investment banking house of S.G. Warburg and four Eu~-ropean banks to form European Hotel Corp. The combine plans $50 million worth of hotels for the neglected low-price end of the market in London, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich. The American challenge last month prompted a merger by two of Britain...
...from 1180 to 1918, when Kurt Eisner's revolution threw them out. The Wittelsbachs still live in the splendid Nymphenburg Castle- Munich's Versailles-and their shadow court dominates the city's social life. At the Aristocrats' Ball, held earlier this month in the Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel, only those patricians with at least 32 titled ancestors were admitted. But for all their blueblood, Munich's aristocrats are far from haughty, and the nontitled hostess can usually decorate her soirée with a few barons and perhaps a prince or two. It is easier...
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