Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that for some reason also served food. In 1955, he invested his savings of $3,000 to acquire a nearby winehouse. Refurbishing and a hearty, inexpensive menu kept the eatery full. Jahn's real breakthrough came after a slightly tipsy customer suggested that he feature the kind of roast chicken sold during Munich's Oktoberfest. To cook the birds, Jahn invented a special rotating spit and sold half a chicken for only...
...pints of cream to feed the guests and their legions of attendants. The menu for the main banquet was up to the occasion: quail eggs stuffed with caviar (the only Iranian dish on the menu); a mousse of crayfish tails in Nantua sauce; stuffed rack of roast lamb and, as a main course, a traditional medieval dish: roast peacock stuffed with foie gras. For dessert there was a ring of figs with raspberries in the center, champagne sherbet and mocha coffee. There was also a 33-kg. cake to mark Farah's 33rd birthday, which was last week...
...Cinderella Castle, a multi-turreted, multi-pennoned edifice intended to look like Everyman's Dream of Fairyland and featuring King Stefan's Banquet Hall (a roast beef dinner...
...YORK CITY--Julio Piazza rode back to LaGuardia Airport on the Harvard team bus. The managers gave him a roast beef sandwich, a package of cupcakes, and a can of soda. The Crimson runners were generally friendly to him. Actually, Piazza, who captained Pennsylvania's cross-country team last year, received much better treatment from Harvard than he and his Quaker teammates accorded the injury ridden Crimson harriers yesterday at Van Cortlandt Park...
...Porcellian has preoccupied Boston Society ever since Francis Cabot Lowell and Robert Tree Paine discovered they shared a fondness for roast pig in 1791. According to one story, a group of ladies were discussing Hitler over tea in a Beacon Hill drawing room when one of the ladies, mystified by the conversation, inquired as to the identity of Hitler. The other ladies drew back in surprise, and the embarrassed lady snapped, "Well, you can't expect me to know every sophomore in the Porc...