Word: restaurateurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vietnamese restaurateur who wants to build a freedom arch in Chicago, says these things differently because he is not a professor at Brandeis, but he feels very strongly about the civic culture. "This is the last stand," he says. "There is nowhere else to run. We have to stick to this country and help it do better...
...America is tapering off, and doing so at a faster pace than at any time since Prohibition took effect in 1920. In restaurants, at country clubs and wedding receptions, and even on the screen, it is increasingly difficult to find anyone with a stiff drink in his hand. Sighs Restaurateur Duke Zeibert, who recently began carrying Moussy nonalcoholic beer from Switzerland at his famed Washington watering hole: "I'm from the old school of Scotch and soda and bourbon and water, but you just don't hear that much anymore. There's been a big turnaround...
DIED. Victor Jules ("Trader Vic") Bergeron, 81, irascible, ingenious restaurateur who, starting in 1934, parlayed a tiny beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis...
Ferraro's journey to the mainstream was anything but routine. Born in Newburgh, N.Y., she was doted on by her Italian immigrant father, a prosperous restaurateur. During her first year he celebrated her birthday every month, lavishing dolls and frilly dresses on the little girl. When he died of a heart attack, Ferraro, then eight, was devastated. She was gravely ill with anemia for a year. Facing reduced circumstances, her mother Antonetta moved Geraldine and her brother Carl (now with New York City's human resources administration) to the South Bronx and took a job in the garment...
...ruling was also a relief for reviewers. Last December a Manhattan jury awarded libel damages to a restaurateur who sued a publisher over an article that criticized his food. That verdict seemed to threaten all critics whose reviews are less than glowing. Had last week's Supreme Court decision gone the other way, says William Rice, editor of Food & Wine magazine, "it would have caused us a great deal of hesitation and soul searching in terms of what we could and should print...