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...DAVE MACMILLAN first ushered at the Harvard football games back in 1956, when he was in high school...
Thirty-five years later, Macmillan--still an usher, now stationed at the entrance to the press box--says he marvels at how The Game always draws people to the Stadium...
...objection to all the pretty pictures in this and other books is the inevitable sense of inferiority they produce when the food comes out of the kitchen. For example, Michael McCarty, owner of California-style restaurants in New York City and Santa Monica, Calif., has published Michael's Cookbook (Macmillan; $29.95), which rates three stars for art direction. Each food section opens with a page of modern art by, say, Helen Frankenthaler or Richard Diebenkorn. What they have to do with eating eludes me. Worse, in each section there are color plates showing the finished dishes. Each is an artistic...
Louisiana has not been slighted in recent cookbook publishing, but Paul Prudhomme's blackened everything has overshadowed the basics such as red beans and rice and pralines. Justin Wilson, who has a Cajun-cooking show on PBS, has remedied that with his humorous tome, Homegrown Louisiana Cookin' (Macmillan; $19.95). Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie by Bill Neal (Knopf; $19.95) serves the same purpose for Southern baking. It is comprehensive and sparingly illustrated...
...bigger bucks may come after the season, when Hartje hopes to co-author a journal of his experiences with an American correspondent. The former Harvard utility man is currently working out the details with MacMillan publishing...