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...bridged the gap between classic gourmet cuisine and natural food." Gingerbread-style Chez Panisse, located in Berkeley, features winter-squash tortellini in a black-truffle sauce as part of its $55 prix-fixe dinner. As an appetizer, Chicago's Printer's Row offers a choice of Brazilian mussel chowder ($4.50) or fresh white and green asparagus steamed with Sauterne and oranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Bye-Bye, Tofu; Hello, Truffles! | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...scene is Maxim's, the legendary fin-de-siecle set piece on Paris' Rue Royale, now owned by Pierre Cardin. In the New York outpost, the semi-nouvelle French cuisine has been more memorable for its price ($65 for prix-fixe dinner) than for its excellence. The cream of mussel soup known as billi-bi, a Maxim's invention, is decently turned out, but stale-tasting duck pate and the overly complicated, overcooked saddle of lamb with basil cream could not even be considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris setting, includes such embarrassingly corny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Have Toque, Will Travel | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

Marchese and fellow junior Jeff Mussel-man figure to win starting sports for the Eastern League schedule Marchok and a handful of other pitchers are vying for the two remaining slots...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Batman Throttle Boston College, 10-2; Marchese, Marchok Throw Five-Hitter | 4/5/1984 | See Source »

VICTORY FOR THE COMMON PROGRAM IS YOUR BUSINESS proclaimed the banner over the garlic soup and mussel bar. NATIONALIZATION IS THE WAY TO A MORE BEAUTIFUL LIFE was the message next to a cotton candy and candy apple stand. The leftist slogan, FOR A REAL CHANGE, was plastered on the walls of hundreds of booths displaying such gastronomical luxuries as pate de foie gras from the Gascogne and oysters from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: From Fete to Fiasco | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...until she was cast as 19th century Novelist George Sand in the new public-television series Notorious Woman. Sand (née Aurore Dupin) not only indulged a taste for tobacco, but for men as well, including Composer Frédéric Chopin, Poet Alfred de Mussel and Novelist Prosper Merimee. "I don't have the incredible energy she had," said Harris, 48, suggesting that "a thyroid condition" might have accounted for Sand's extraordinary vigor. "Her eyes were rather poppy. She lived to the hilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 8, 1975 | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

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