Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accent is equally Gallic at L'Ecole, the aptly named restaurant of the French Culinary Institute in New York City's SoHo district. A recent $18 prix fixe lunch began with a light Roquefort souffle, which was followed by a moist salmon fillet in chervil sauce, a delicate lamb ragout and a green salad, and ended with a textbook-perfect creme brulee...
...C.I.A. draw, however, is the French cuisine in the Escoffier Room. The prix fixe $40 dinner features such classics as poached Dover sole stuffed with artichokes and tomatoes, and roasted rack of lamb on ratatouille. The 90- seat restaurant is sometimes booked three months in advance and boasts a four-star rating from the Mobil Travel Guide. Over a Kir Royale aperitif, bemused diners can enjoy a seminar in progress. On view in the glassed-in kitchen, a dozen nervous young chefs in tall toques bump into one another as they peel, poach and broil their way through the evening...
Despite occasionally receiving a low grade for an acrid vinaigrette or undercooked chicken, the students get kicks of their own. Henry Hirsch, 26, sometimes forgets that there is a world beyond the kitchen door as he sautes lamb over the hot stove at L'Ecole. "You get sick of the food back here," says Hirsch, a photographer who wants to open a restaurant of his own. "Then you look out into the dining room, and people are actually enjoying it." Especially at those prices...
They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb...
...juicy parts. Omaha-based ConAgra, the No. 2 grower, agreed on a so-called lockup arrangement in which the Nebraska firm can buy some of Holly Farms' operations if the marauding Tyson succeeds in taking over. ConAgra, which already controls 20% of the U.S. beef industry, 33% of the lamb market and nearly 10% of broiler production, would like to bring Holly Farms' Weaver frozen-chicken label into the same shed with its Armour, Banquet and Country Pride brands. Tyson is now suing both companies in an attempt to overturn the lockup deal. Both Tyson and ConAgra are hungry...