Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recipes, reflections and recommendations. Julia Child & Company (Knopf; 243 pages; $8.95 paperback) is not so much a collection of recipes, of which there are a Julian abundance, as a matter of celebrations and consummations. There is a Dinner for the Boss that runs through consommé brunoise, standing rib roast and macédoine of fruits in champagne with bourbon-soaked chocolate truffles. Anyone who serves anyone such a repast must have a very good boss or richly deserve a raise. Julia also has suggestions for such events as a birthday dinner ("roast duck and a big gooey cake...
These books are somewhat scaled down--after all not many kitchens feature ovens large enough to roast whole oxen, nor do many now wish to nosh on "gizzards, livers, and heart of swan." But one can always seek the true spirit of Christmas in an eleven course meal, featuring, as one author suggested, "Friters of Parsnips, Funges, Aquapatys (boiled garlic) and the like, finishing of course with as much Hippocras (spiced wine) as the body could tolerate...
...snow ever falls, and this year's model December 25th rolls around, the sins of past debauches will be long buried. And as people gather to celebate the birthday of a two thousand year gone heretical Jew, we can easily salve any conscience recoiling from yet another helping of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. After all, at least we're avoiding that spirit of Christmas' past that would demand the consumption of "broke broune, longe flouteurs and payne puff" as but one tenth of our Christmas cheer...
Thanksgiving Day was even then an old tradition, of course. The first one had been celebrated in 1619 at the Berkeley settlement near Jamestown, Va., and this year the same feast was re-created at Berkeley Plantation, as it traditionally is, with an outdoor turkey roast on the first...
Krause said he has tested most possible carrier foods, such as chicken, eggs and rare roast beef, but has not yet discovered any salmonella bacteria. However, all dining halls are saving a portion of each meal for three days so that if a student or worker becomes infected, UHS labs can test the meals they ate for salmonella...