Word: lentil
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...Prince Charles, who in 1975 became president of the Mary Rose Trust, a charity dedicated to saving the vessel. The 21st Prince of Wales had made ten dives to inspect the ship in its cold, muddy resting place, an experience he described as similar to "swimming about in lentil soup...
Their work, after all, was precisely what the founders of modern art - Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Matisse " - had set themselves against: | pompier realism, with its gleaners, nuns and goosegirls, its moralizing illusionism, heavy sentiment and lentil-soup colors. It was "photo graphic" - a single word, damnation enough. But in 1 98 1 taste in such matters has not merely shifted, it has come full circle. The exhibition now on view at the Brooklyn Museum, "The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900," would not even have been attempted by an American museum 15 years ago; the subject...
...follows that the bishop does not favor rich viands, even for an occasional guest. A recent lunch visitor found himself dispatched to the garden to pluck a lettuce. As he rinsed it he was confronted with a choice between fish-head soup and lentil soup. (Not straight fish heads, the host explained. Those go for fertilizer. Rather a nourishing fish-head broth.) The guest chose lentils. Followed by some lettuce leaves, drenched in dill-pickle juice, and then by rolls (left by a neighbor) that the bishop turned into dessert by adding some home-grown rhubarb. Such frugality...
...excellent but expensive ($36 a year) biweekly newsletter on the joys of eating well. A sort of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sauce Béarnaise But Were Afraid to Ask, the eight-page Craig Claiborne Journal promises a complete course for the conscientious gourmet: recipes for lentil soup as well as filets mignons Grimod de la Reynière, a serialized Dictionary of Gastronomy and reviews of restaurants at home and abroad that Claiborne hopes will ultimately reach from Peoria to Peking. "We mean to amuse and advise," wrote Claiborne in Vol. 1, No. 1. He promises...
...develop protein supplements than to get Indians to eat them. The high-protein gruel, Balahar ("nutritious child's food" in Hindi), concocted of wheat, peanuts and powdered milk, has been widely distributed in drought-stricken Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh states. But mothers often withhold the protein-rich lentil dal from their babies because they believe it upsets young stomachs...