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Welles was also a conspicuous womanizer and gourmand. He was, writes Brady, "a man who would think nothing of starting off a meal with a bottle of Moet et Chandon just for himself, followed by a Boudin Noir aux Pommes (blood sausage with apples), then a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau to help wash down a Terrine de Canard and a huge porterhouse steak, and finally a Mousse a l'Armagnac, followed by four or five glasses of Calvados, and several cups of very black coffee...
Normally people's lives do not flash before their eyes when they eat sashimi. But a meal of Japanese fugu, or puffer fish, is no everyday dining experience. Because the fish's internal organs contain the nerve poison tetrodotoxin, Japanese gourmets rely on expert chefs to remove the toxic entrails before serving. Yet for several Japanese diners each year, usually those who clean the fish themselves, a fugu supper is their last...
...puffer fish will be processed only by fugu chefs in the southern Japanese city of Shimonoseki, which has not lost a customer in 50 years. Japanese government officials will verify tetrodotoxin levels before the fugu is flash-frozen and flown to New York. Cost of a full- course fugu meal at Nippon Restaurant...
Johnson is serious about wines, but not too serious. Vintage offers some deadpan send-ups of oenophile pretension. One segment displays a dinner at a Madeira Club in Savannah, where tuxedo-clad grandees, after a traditional meal of turtle soup and roast duck, grope for words to describe some rare 19th century Malmseys and Verdelhos. "It's like the young Brahms and the mature Liszt," burbles one member...
...chief engineer did not make a point of telling us that "we eat alongside the workers" or demonstrating for us, as guests, how democratic he was. It was all perfectly natural, just like paying afterward for the meal...