Word: micheles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House Republican Whip Robert Michel of Illinois exclaimed last week: "This is the biggest tax bill we've ever passed-bar anything! People out in the country are disturbed and incensed." Confided Illinois Republican Representative John Anderson: "A lot of fellows are worried about defending this bill in the fall campaigns...
...culinary revisionism that has modified and simplified the classic, cholesterol-laden dishes of Caréme and Escoffier. It is not in fact all that nouvelle. Some 2,000 years ago, the Greek savant Arches-tratus inveighed against "sticky, clammy sauces." There is also cuisine minceur, the cooking of slimness. Michel Guérard, its chef-evangelist, has won a wider following for his ascetic unsauced dishes among dieters than among true gourmands, however...
...Michel Guérard, 44, owner of a three-star restaurant in Eugénie-les-Bains, near Lourdes, and foremost practitioner of la cuisine minceur, the cooking of slimness: "The most important tool of a chef is his tongue. Taste, taste, taste! And don't forget color. I combine my vegetables the way a painter arranges his colors-until he obtains the exact effect that he wants...
...Michel Bourdin, 35, who as the renowned chef of London's venerated Connaught Hotel has consummated a happy marriage of Gallic savoir and Anglo fare: "The secret of good cooking is not concocting elaborate dishes. Choose fresh things and learn how to bring out their taste. But you must personalize the dish. Cooking is a way of giving and of making yourself desirable. So do it simply, unelaborately...
...machines the Casino du Liban, near Jounieh, though its Lido-style floor show has yet to reopen. In warm weather, Beirut's St Georges swimming club, located next to the internationally renowned burned-out hotel of the same name, has reopened for swimming, sunning and girl watching Owner Michel Nader, who spent $500,000 to refurbish his club, left one bullet-riddled section of the bar as it was, "so people can remember and talk about what madness the civil war was." Another sign of returning normality: the reappearance of foreigners, including about...