Word: nantua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of Fridays ago Pierre Salinger, John Kennedy's press secretary, penned a note between bites of his shrimps sautés nantua and sent it over to Pat Buchanan, President Nixon's speechwriter, who was deep into an omelette au parmesan. Salinger congratulated Buchanan for his performance before the Watergate committee. On his way out of the restaurant, Buchanan stopped for a cheery chat with Salinger and his companions, Columnist Art Buchwald and Frank Mankiewicz, George McGovern's sometime campaign aide...
...butter and cheese, and 1,000 pints of cream to feed the guests and their legions of attendants. The menu for the main banquet was up to the occasion: quail eggs stuffed with caviar (the only Iranian dish on the menu); a mousse of crayfish tails in Nantua sauce; stuffed rack of roast lamb and, as a main course, a traditional medieval dish: roast peacock stuffed with foie gras. For dessert there was a ring of figs with raspberries in the center, champagne sherbet and mocha coffee. There was also a 33-kg. cake to mark Farah's 33rd...
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