Word: ren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry had already made clear he would not have to fight the battle of Verdon. René quit because Mrs. Mary Kaltman, the new White House "food coordinator," insisted on budget-paring barbarities such as frozen vegetables. Though Haller's main job will be to cook for official dinners and luncheons, he is an accomplished cuisine czar in his own right and will also supervise Mrs. Kaltman's "central storage service," which supplies all three White House kitchens...
...course, there will be problems and conflicts," said Haller. "That's life. I can cook in any language." Even if he has to cook Pedernales-style once in a while, Haller will be closer to the cult of Escoffier than Verdon, who resigned in its cause. For poor René is now chowdering around the country demonstrating electric mixers and grinders...
Sacre Cordon Bleu! French Master Chef René Verdon, 41, who steamed out of the White House kitchen complaining about the Texas menus, has gone to work as "culinary consultant" to the Hamilton Beach Division of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. in Racine, Wis. Le metier: touring the U.S. to demonstrate electric blenders and knives and whoop it up for the company cookbook, which recommends such delicacies as hamburger soup, crab-meat corn chowder, and baked honey-orange ham slice...
...first glance, it looked like a classic Latin American power grab. A long line of cars pulled up to the La Paz military airport, and Army General Alfredo Ovando escorted Air Force General René Barrientos to the steps of a waiting C-54. Moments later, Barrientos was on his way to Switzerland. Only a few days before, Barrientos and Ovando had been co-Presidents of Bolivia's 14-month-old military junta. Now, there was only Ovando...
...Chef René Verdon quit the White House kitchen rumbling that California wines are très ordinaires and Lyndon's favorite dishes are fit only for Him. That was too much for California-born Restaurateur Victor Bergeron, 63, better known as Trader Vic for his string of 13 Polynesian eateries around the U.S. He forked over $3,612 to buy a full page in San Francisco's Examiner & Chronicle to baste René in an open letter. A sampling: "By what stretch of the imagination do you think that French cooking is the only cuisine...