Word: michelin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gourmets, the news was unsettling. This year, for the first time in history, the Guide Michelin gave its top rating for culinary excellence, three stars, to four additional restaurants. Only twelve establishments in all of France carried three stars last year and the long-term trend has been downward: in 1940 1,200 establishments enjoyed one or more stars v. only 610 today. Has the bible of haute cuisine lost its bite? Not at all, says one of the editors: "We wanted formally to recognize and concretize the new wave in French gastronomy...
...true cook's tour of Paris that includes 15 hours of instruction from the chef of the Trianon Palace (no stars, alas, in the Guide Michelin...
Other nations are also planning to join in, with aid, trade and investments. Sweden has announced that it will give $70.5 million to North Viet Nam over the next three years. The French, who have never got Viet Nam out of their blood, will seek to revive the huge Michelin rubber plantations near Saigon, which are now producing at scarcely 40% of prewar levels. The French also plan to make investments in transportation and trucking in the South. Meanwhile, in West Germany, Britain and other nations, businessmen are looking forward to winning construction or development contracts...
...book's user can find his way around with the help of the clearest, most informative urban maps this side of France's Michelin guides. He will discover the delicate wrought-iron tracery of Fairmount Park's old bridges, the city's best ice cream stand (Bassett's in Reading Terminal Market), and even a giant automobile crusher on Penrose Avenue. To make sense of the city streets, the book traces Philadelphia's growth from the neat rectangular grid of streets studded with parks laid out by Penn himself in 1622, through later annexations...
...Michelin guide to Paris describes learning at the Sorbonne in the old days to a way which reminds me of Harvard...