Word: ragout
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...