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...decorum and ceremony that one expects of a Harvard tradition. The audience included all of one reporter and two photographers, one of them from the athletic department. Attendance was so bad they ended up thanking me four times for coming. Even the spaghetti lunch seemed well below the roast beef banquet standard...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 5/19/1971 | See Source »

...crisis the English gourmet's problem, which she defines as "the neurosis between the soul and the body"? The English tradition, she thinks, "might have blossomed as richly as that of the French." After Cromwell, mourns Miss Pullar, "nothing was ever quite the same again." "Mighty Roast Beef" became the national dish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Groaning Board | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

...image of the nude woman as a hunk of beef was originated about five years ago by the Cattle Baron Steak and Roast Beef Parlor in New York City and immediately became popular with poster buyers...

Author: By Patti B. Saris, | Title: Law Group Files Petition To Protest As 'Degrading' The Beef Girl Trademark | 4/20/1971 | See Source »

...started a culinary school and in 1964 turned his full attention to classic cuisine. He produced a series of literate cookbooks and debunked such myths as the need to wash mushrooms, devein shrimp and press garlic. He preached imaginative uses for leftovers, such as Armenian lamb pie made from roast leg of lamb. His books include Michael Field's Cooking School, Michael Field's Culinary Classics and Improvisations and All Manner of Food. With his wife, Frances, he wrote the TIME-LIFE book A Quintet of Cuisines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 5, 1971 | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

Most of the other Orions were too busy at the training table set for them by their hosts, the San Francisco Giants, to get homesick. Convinced that the Western diet is the secret to the power of U.S. players, the Orions wolfed down platters of roast beef, steak, corned beef and cabbage, brownies and, after a few lessons on gnawing techniques, corn on the cob. Something worked. After losing their first five games by narrow margins, the Orions exploded for eleven hits to trounce the Oakland Athletics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Learning by Doing | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

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