Word: mermoz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...timeless enticements of a Mediterranean cruise-the visits to fabled isles, the sun and spray, the moonlight murmurings-were not for those aboard the French Line's Mermoz. The passengers, in fact, had little stomach for anything but their stomachs; the ship's 470 well-heeled and generally well-fleshed guests had signed up for an ocean voyage dedicated solely to gastronomy...
From the Thursday morning when they embarked, until the following Sunday afternoon when the Mermoz returned them to Cannes, they ate and sipped their way through an epicure's dream of meals prepared by four of France's most brilliant chefs. In all, for up to $900 a stomach, they put away 1,800 bottles of Moët et Chandon 1969 champagne, 4,000 more bottles of red and white wine, 10,000 canapés, 264 Ibs. of caviar, 244 Ibs. of foie gras, one ton of meat, 250 chickens, 250 ducks...
...Gault and his colleague Christian Millau have become known through their guidebooks and monthly magazine as the evangelists of la nouvelle cuisine française which celebrates practicality and provincial simplicity in reaction against the ornate, heavy, highly stylized haute cuisine of French tradition. To make Mermoz a ship of drools, Gault lured aboard...