Word: mignon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seconds. During the Fords' first weeks in the White House, their private dinners have given a good indication of what their guests may expect: breast of capon with rice, a Haller chef-d'oeuvre; calves' liver and onions; filet of sole; lamb chops, filet mignon and sirloin (all the Fords' meat is broiled and there is a ban on rich sauces). For dietary reasons-but not because Ford, like a Borgia, has to have his food tasted for fear of poisoning-the President is always served separately; he receives a plate garnished by his chef with...
...that is as elegant as the ambience. Little has been changed inside. Diners enter through a ticket booth, scanning a big schedule board, and buy tickets printed with a destination that determines their choice of entree: New Orleans books their shrimp; Virginia, cloved, sugar-coated ham; New York, filet mignon...
Classic restaurants are blooming around such nostalgic themes as old automobiles-for instance, Doug's Body Shop in Detroit, where diners can consume their filet mignon in a 1951 Packard-a building in Buffalo reconstructed from Mark Twain's old home, and an exquisite old Claremont, Calif., high school. There is also a streetcar manufacturing plant in San Francisco that serves only spaghetti dishes; and a reconstructed Colorado-style mining camp called The Chicago Claim Company, where luncheon menus are printed on land-claim certificates, and the decor features outsize mining pans. The place is, literally, a gold...
...fare as well. The spider Arabella, which became famous by demonstrating that it could spin a web in zero G, survived the return to earth. But its arachnid companion Anita died before the end of the mission, apparently of starvation; Anita stubbornly refused to eat the morsels of filet mignon that were offered. Other casualties were the two minnows that had been carried aboard Skylab. However, their offspring - the first earth creatures to be born in space (except, perhaps, for some offspring of stowaway bacteria on earlier nights) - made it safely to earth, only to die a day later...
...hybrid meat will not soon replace filet mignon at finer restaurants, but compared with regular beef, it is more tender, contains significantly more protein and less fat. It tastes much like conventional beef but is slightly richer. Best of all, Basolo figures that it will eventually be priced 25% to 40% cheaper than the real thing...