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...Somebody owes me a lobster dinner because they told me last year they thought it would never get off the ground...
...California is a colossal put-on. When I was there, I was served New York-cut steak, Long Island duckling, Maryland turkey and Maine lobster. All the long-legged, blue-eyed California girls hailed from Kansas and Texas. I sampled native gefilte fish in the deli opposite the Clift and .-Ugh!-discovered it was made with saltwater fish. This is our future...
London. Mitre Hotel, 28 miles outside London proper, at Hampton Court. Diners are advised to arrive early for an appetite-inducing stroll through the formal gardens of Hampton Court Palace across the street. Two restaurants, lavish wine cellar (stock valued at $125,000). Suggested entree: lobster à l'américaine (sauteed in butter, flamed with brandy and served on a bed of rice with its own lobster sauce). Or Dover sole, poached in cream sauce and Meursault, garnished with baby shrimps. The tab: about...
Restaurant Drouant, Place Gaillon. Monthly meeting place of the French literary club, the Académie Goncourt. Excellent seafood (coquille St. Jacques gratinée, lobster thermidor) and desserts (peach Melba, orange Jeanette). About...
...Brutish British. Anguilla was ready: a flotilla of lobster smacks, so one story went, would wake the island by blowing horns when a British ship appeared. A herd of goats was supposedly assigned to clog the airstrip, and there was desultory talk of using sharp rocks to block island beaches against infiltrators. Undaunted, the British mustered a force of about 300 men, including the Red Devils, a Royal Marine platoon and bobbies from Scotland Yard, to set up a pacification program. When the British surged ashore, automatic weapons at the ready, there were only a few children to meet them...