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...Ready to Jump." Annemarie's own taste runs to roast goose with red cabbage and homemade spatzle (noodles), and her idea of an ideal main course is roast duck served with white rice, artichoke bottoms and petits pois with a salad of romaine, watercress and little mandarins. No dieter herself ("If one eats right, one doesn't have to"), she made herself an expert in low-calorie meals. And when Weight Watchers magazine asked for a few samples, she cheerfully agreed. As recipes, they were ordinary. Her "Black Mushroom Soup" is simply five cups of bouillon...
Though no two Morrison's cafeterias are decorated alike-motifs can vary from French colonial to classical Roman-menus, portions and prices are the same from branch to branch. Shunning more exotic dishes, the chain sticks to such bestselling staples as roast beef, chicken and fried shrimp, specifications for which are detailed in a six-inch-thick recipe book called "the Bible." With an IBM computer keeping close tabs on supplies and customer preferences, Morrison's holds losses from spoilage and leftovers to a scant 2%. Similar precision governs food display: on the serving line, such higher-profit...
ZERALDA'S OGRE by Tomi Ungerer (Harper & Row; $3.95). This lonely ogre has sharp teeth, a big nose, a bad temper and he sometimes eats little children for breakfast that is, until he meets Zeralda, who is such a good cook that he swiftly switches to pompano, roast chicken and other goodies. Though it may sound scary to adults, it is the kind of story that is invariably amusing to children and the youngsters will love the menacing drawings. Also recommended: Ungerer's Moon Man, a story of the man in the moon's brief visit to earth...