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More than 500 recipes are included, each category with a prologue relating it to Biblical menus. Appetizers "almost exactly as we know them," says Author O'Brien, were an integral part of Biblical meals. In the countryside, "where Jesus was teaching, the housewife offered a bowl of vinegar and a piece of bread for dipping, while the guest waited for the table to be laid." An O'Brien appetizer: Burning...
...Howard Johnson's restaurant chain doubled the number of high chairs and junior chairs as whole families bore down in record numbers to comb the menus-and take advantage of the rest rooms. The fanciest Miami Beach hotels waited hand and foot-and charged an arm and a leg-on folks from What Cheer, Iowa and Rough and Ready, Calif. Nearby motels turned away road-tired hordes at the rate of 50 a night. In Washington, D.C., tourists from Calamine, Ark. and Hurricane, Utah scrambled to the monuments and parks, bought foam-rubber hats and doused them with water...
Kielbasa & 39? Steak. Most plants try to avoid repeating menus more than once every two or three weeks, pay attention to workers' preferences, and have extras for special occasions. Cleveland's Thompson Products has a steak dinner ($1.50) every payday; Chrysler has kielbasa for workers of Polish descent. Pittsburgh's H. J. Heinz Co. has imported Swiss, German and Austrian chefs, encourages recipes from employees. Average check at Heinz: 33? for production-line workers (who often bring part of their lunch from home), 53? for executives and white-collar workers...
...with palm trees and changed its name for the occasion to Boulevard Méditerranéen. The managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward VII, completed plans for three days of all-English menus, to the unconcealed horror of gastronomes. Maxim's even arranged to have a young British bull flown across the channel for an old-fashioned Elizabethan barbecue...
...report concludes "that the quality of the food served could be greatly improved by better preparation and more careful choice of menus, and that the rate could be considerably reduced without lowering the quality of the food." CRIMSON, March...