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...Leslee Reis at her enchanting Cafe Provencal underlines sauteed foie gras with mango puree and cushions roast pheasant on mushroom ravioli. The menu at Lydia Shire's Boston restaurant, Biba, which is due to open this month, will feature dishes as stylistically diverse as Thai green-curry lobster soup, salad of rock crab and sashimi, and lambs' tongues with fava beans and cilantro. Even in New Orleans, where locals still favor their own Creole-Cajun kitchen, Susan Spicer, of the Bistro at Maison de Ville, has won converts with her Provencal improvisations...
...they don't know how to roll it on the fork!" That's not all. "Why is pasta overcooked in America? Why is it oversauced? I get depressed." She regrets having put a cold-pasta recipe in her More Classic Italian Cookbook, which apparently sparked America's pasta-salad boom in the '80s. "I'm so embarrassed," she rails, explaining that cold pasta is not a part of traditional Italian cuisine. Not that she doesn't favor many American foods: hot dogs, pastrami, the world's best steaks, corn on the cob. Says she: "Americans are so much more curious...
...Soviets continued to press Goldman throughout the lunch meeting; the dialogue between the scholar and his interviewers over the Faculty Club's salad and fish often resembled a cautious sparring match...
...Ecole, the aptly named restaurant of the French Culinary Institute in New York City's SoHo district. A recent $18 prix fixe lunch began with a light Roquefort souffle, which was followed by a moist salmon fillet in chervil sauce, a delicate lamb ragout and a green salad, and ended with a textbook-perfect creme brulee...
...still long and still slow. Braying fools still jump ahead of you to be with their friends. People still get in the right line because it's shorter when the left line is much closer to the food. There is still a mad mob around the drinks and the salad bar and breakfast pastries...