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...samples, she cheerfully agreed. As recipes, they were ordinary. Her "Black Mushroom Soup" is simply five cups of bouillon, 1 Ib. of sliced mushrooms with coarse pepper seasoning simmered for 30 minutes, after which the mushrooms are strained out and the soup is served sprinkled with parsley. But the magazine's cover carried the headline: JACKIE KENNEDY...
...face, a familiar Gothic landmark in the capital, now window-dresses record emporia throughout the country. His smasheroo album is in the front ranks of Billboard's "Top LPs," sandwiched between the sound track from The Wild Angels and Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. He has made appearances on the Johnny Carson Show and Hollywood Palace, and his name will soon join Clem Kadiddlehopper's on the Red Skelton Show. At 71, Everett McKinley Dirksen, minority leader of the U.S. Senate, has made the scene...
...popular among German tenors (a cashew-sized sliver two hours before performing is supposed to strengthen the heart) that one indignant Italian soprano recently went onstage with an aerosol can of deodorant. Tenor Franco Corelli thoughtfully combines his raw-meat and garlic diet with nibbles on a bouquet of parsley between scenes...
...Parsley Nosegay. Another pet peeve of Villard's is the widely held picture of professional diplomats as a "striped: pants brigade of effete creatures." Instead of striped pants, today's diplomat wears three-button business suits. Instead of scintillating soirees, he attends paralyzing parties where his innards are assailed by "searing sauces and alcoholic depth bombs." Many is the career man, says Villard, who echoes the plaint of the late French diplomat Jules Henri after a ten-year tour in Washington: "I drank, God help my digestion, 35,000 cocktails in line of duty...
...perfectly trained servants, Villard lays it to rest by describing the time that a West African houseboy was shown how to garnish a wild boar for an important dinner. "Consternation reigned," says Villard, "when the dish was triumphantly brought in, apple clenched firmly between the houseboy's teeth, parsley protruding from his nose...