Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...requirements are growing with the fast increase in population. Says Ford Vice President Irving A. Duffy, chief of the farm division: "By 1975, our population is expected to reach about 200 million. That means we must feed 35 to 40 million extra stomachs. It means we'll need meat from 10 million more cattle and calves, 20 million extra hogs, 3,500,000 more sheep and lambs, milk from 6,000,000 more dairy cows, eggs from 87 million more hens. To do the job, the farmer will need more machines...
...life had a simple line. At 13, he left school for the kitchen of his uncle's restaurant in Nice. He learned the hard way, but fast-uninterrupted even by the Franco-Prussian War, when, as an army chef, he learned how to cook a horse (scald the meat and cool before cooking, to kill the bitter taste). After the war he perfected his style and fatefully met Hotelman Cesar Ritz. At Ritz-managed hotels (Monte Carlo's Grand, London's Savoy and Carlton, Paris' Ritz), Escoffier cooked his way to fame...
...century chef, Vatel, but was more imaginative. Vatel committed suicide, impaling himself on his sword because the sole did not arrive in time for an important dinner. When asked what he would have done in Vatel's place, Escoffier did not hesitate. "I would have taken the white meat of chickens-very young chickens," he said, "and I would have made fillet of sole with them. No one would ever have known the difference...
...hunters-or rather, huntresses-are wasps out for big game to feed their young. They shoot only pointblank, not to kill but to paralyze, since the victim is to be sealed into the huntress' lair with her egg, and the larva thrives only on fresh meat. Though only such consecrated bug watchers as France's late great Entomologist Jean Henri Fabre get in on these magnificent shoots, British Science Writer John Crompton, author of the excellent Life of the Spider (TIME, July 3, 1950), has put all the bug watchers' best stories in this urbane and well...
Pocket Veto. In Billings, Mont., when charged with attempted theft, William F. Barraugh explained that he had forgotten to empty his pockets of the cheese, meat, sardines, avocado and bologna he had put there when he found the grocery store "too crowded to push a cart...