Word: michelin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clock one afternoon last week a crowd of 100 eager, jostling Frenchmen stood behind a police cordon outside the Drouant restaurant in Paris. Inside, another 200 journalists and photographers circulated among the tuxedoed waiters of the establishment, possessor of two proud ** in the Michelin guide. Finally, a representative of the literary ladies and gentlemen who had been deliberating over a luncheon that included foie gras des Landes en gelée au porto, faisan rôti au pommes en liard fromages and profiteroles (enhanced by Bâtard-Montrachet 1970 and Château Nenin 1967) emerged from...
...state dinner, served with military precision, might feature such Army-wife specialties as Mamie's cherished Chicken Jewel Salad Ring, a cloying confection that included cranberries, celery and almonds, epoxied with gelatin. During the Kennedy Administration, the sumptuary menus seemed intended to rate a star or two from Michelin. Lyndon Johnson introduced Texas ranch-house-chili cuisine to the White House...
...then, has the book gone into its fourth printing? Why has it remained a favorite cocktail-party appetizer? Because of its very attitude of unassailable superiority. In France, the Guide Michelin can move a crowd to a country inn or a chef to suicide...
...complete line of cars, in contrast to Citroën, which has concentrated on the upper and lower ends of the market with its avant-garde luxury lines and spartan, eccentrically styled Deux Chevaux. The merged company will be headed by Peugeot Director-General Francois Gautier, 67, but Michelin tire company, which owns a controlling share of Citroën's stock, is expected to retain a similar position in the combined enterprise. Not surprisingly, French investors reacted to the engagement by bidding up the price of Citroën's stock -and bidding down Peugeot...
...Tour d'Argent is one of only four Parisian restaurants that consistently earn three stars-the highest rating-from the Guide Michelin, France's arbiter of gastronomy. The others: Maxim's, Las-serre and Le Grand Vefour...