Word: provinciale
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Nicholas is a typical young Dickens hero. Steadfast, upright and much beleaguered, he struggles to maintain a life for his sister and newly widowed mother against the unexpected threats and grim incursions of greedy uncles, sinister aristocrats, crooked politicians and assorted malefactors. He holds down a variety of jobs-perhaps...
Composer Stephen Oliver was still doing his orchestrations during the last dress rehearsals, but when Nicholas Nickleby was drawn together for its opening last June, all the frantic arranging and joining suddenly appeared to be seamless. "I felt I could even walk into a scene I wasn't normally...
The season's most savory surprise is English Provincial Cooking by Elisabeth Ayrton (Harper & Row; $16.95). Tradition au contraire ("In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce"), well-flavored sauces and gravies have graced English food since the Roman occupation. (Pastry, too, was introduced by Caesar...
French cuisine-or at least its literature-seems to be divided like Gaul itself into three parts: classic, nouvelle and provincial. Many of the top chefs who miraculously find time to write these books are, hélas, unable to spread the flavors of their tables across the printed page...
Trudeau has considerable popular support for his plans to bring home the constitution, thanks in part to a $6 million national advertising campaign in the early fall. But so far, only the premiers of Ontario and New Brunswick have promised their backing. Other premiers, including Alberta's Lougheed, are...