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Along with Mousse of Scallops, Poached Striped Bass, and Soupe de Poisson, the pair prepared a Sauce Gribiche, a variation on mayonnaise which contains mustard. "If you use the old-fashioned ball-park mustard, you get something that tastes like a church supper," Claiborne said...

Author: By Susan H. Goldstein, | Title: Claiborne, Franey Demonstrate Dishes | 5/11/1978 | See Source »

...dumped; it is all recycled through the spacecraft. "The most beautiful sight in orbit, or one of the most beautiful sights, is a urine dump at sunset," says Schweickart. "It's really spectacular." Well, as the French say, one man's meat is another man's poisson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Space Spectacular | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...manners." A recent altercation in Paris eloquently illustrates the diagnosis: annoyed when he was delayed briefly by a slow-moving panel truck, the driver of a Citroën sedan sped around it, whipped in front of it in an insulting maneuver known locally as a queue de poisson (fishtail swerve), then forced the truck to stop and shot its driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morality: Turn the Other Fender | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...After watching Julia Child for six months, I bought my wife Mastering the An of French Cooking. It was a wise move. Last night I came home to TIME (with Julia) and filets de poisson gratifies a la Parisienne. Hurrah for Julia Child, TIME, and my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...Chablis as the entrée at a luncheon for former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Kennedys' treasure later won international renown with such dishes as chicken in champagne sauce and an incomparable quenelles de brochet. But one President's meat is another's poisson, and under L.B.J. the mâitre soon found himself tasting such Texas delicacies as Pedernales River chili and purée of garbanzos, a pease porridge cold that, in René's mournful words, is "already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Adieu to Pease Porridge | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

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