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...gathering in Geneva, and the gunfire in Guatemala and Viet Nam-all find their proper places in this week's news budget. But some of the out-of-the-way stories in the issue are not to be missed. Just as France's famed gourmet Guide Michelin (see THE WORLD) confers one, two or three stars on France's best restaurants and decrees which are "worth a detour,'' our own chefs have a few specialties de la maison to commend...
Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). Columnist Art Buchwald is interviewed in Paris, also an inspector for the Guide Michelin...
Dillon dinners were worth a star, perhaps two, in the Guide Michelin. Dillon was what bureaucrats call a "quick briefer." He read every cable that left the embassy, demanded hyperaccurate reporting from subordinates. He had a habit (as he still does) of catching up aides on small-but often significant-errors. Eventually, even the Foreign Service pros gave him their respect...
...charge of the raters are Simon & Schuster Vice President Jason Burger, 44, and Editors Alden and Marion Stevens. Price, service, and even the temperature of the kitchen dishwater-as well as the quality of the food-guided the tasters. Burger, who put in a month's work for Michelin to help him with the Mobil job, reports that some highly rated French eating places would have been ruled out by his staff because of unclean kitchens. A similarity between the Michelin and Mobil scouts: both announce their impending arrival by letter, months in advance; but the inspectors eat incognito...
Whimsy & Flackery. U.S. restaurants are rated from one to five stars, in contrast to the Michelin's top billing of three stars. In France, Michelin's 1960 edition found ten restaurants worthy of three-star rating; in the four Mobil guides to date, eleven restaurants won the top accolade.* The selections on the whole are remarkably reliable, but devotees of good eating have found much with which to quarrel, particularly in the big cities. Interesting is the fact that two legendary (if perhaps overrated) food towns, such as New Orleans and San Francisco, have only one five-star...