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Word: ragout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman chef running a restaurant in France, the Olympe in Paris, prides herself on her salmon steaks cooked on a bed of sorrel en papillotes. And then there is Yvonne Soliva, of the Moulin de Tante Yvonne in Bouches-du-Rhône, one of whose favorite dishes is ragout of thrush (18 birds for six people). First catch the thrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feasts for Holiday and Every Day | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...Prince for dinner. In the huge dining room of Maazar Palace in Riyadh, a black-tied maitre d'hôtel supervised waiters in white robes who on this occasion served Q, meal consisting of asparagus soup, fried shrimps with tartar sauce, kebabs with cooked vegetables, a ragout of okra, meat and rice with almonds, chocolate cake, watermelon and fruit. Most of the guests were not from Saudi Arabia's upper class; many appeared to be desert tribesmen. There was no ceremony at the table, and no distinction between rich and poor. A few guests finished quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Majlis: Desert Democracy | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...Girardet, 41, who-though Swiss-bora and Swiss-based -conducts one of the world's greatest French restaurants, at Crissier near Lausanne: "You don't always need expensive products. A ragout of canned tuna can be delicious. Even potatoes can be interpreted in many ways. Never kill natural flavor by oversaucing or overcooking. Do like the Chinese: pop things in and out of a piping hot pan immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Tips from the Toques | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...statistics have been-it requires the discipline of an anchorite to do that today. Thus it is hard to leaf through the pages of magazines like Réalties or Connaissance des Arts without experiencing a touch of nausea: this is what it has come down to, a ragout of flattering consumer objects floating in a buttery sauce of vicarious chic-Mercedes-Benzes and Daum crystal, Porthault linen and Andy Warhols, Tiepolo drawings and onyx washstands, Dubuffets and silver-garnished narwhal horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Modest Proposal: Royalties for Artists | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...York is Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal" that "a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." Let those who will, stomach this solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1971 | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

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