Word: salmone
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Scallops of all sorts were on so many menus, in fact, that those mollusks soon may show up on the endangered-species list. Pasta was much favored, least surprisingly for a dinner given by Ambassador and Mrs. Rinaldo Petrignani, who served penne with smoked salmon to such Reagan buddies as the Walter Annenbergs, the Frank Sinatras, the Charles Wicks, Attorney General and Mrs. William French Smith and the Ed Meeses. Many of the same guests were expected to partake of pasta shells alla carbonara at a White House luncheon for 150 following the Sunday swearing-in ceremony. Pasta primavera...
...prepare 29 dishes for 500 to 700 guests. The National Gallery ordered regional American dishes from Design Cuisine, a Washington caterer, to mark its exhibition of American paintings lent for the Inauguration by Armand Hammer, the millionaire industrialist. Some 250 guests were expected to sample Wisconsin veal, Puget Sound salmon, New England cranberries and beaten biscuits...
There have been times when the weather socked the pilot in and the mail run had to be postponed for up to five days. But this day was so clear you could almost see tomorrow. The Salmon River Mountains were below. The way the snow caught the sun, the snow looked like diamond dust. Off the starboard wing the Sawtooth Mountain Range made a ragged platinum horizon. Down canyons, through passes, over peaks, the Cessna with the skis affixed to its wheels threw a shadow that caused elk, long-horned sheep and mountain goats to bolt. On the control panel...
...this route the mailman is always invited inside. A couple who wish to be known only as Newt and Sharon baked him a cherry pie on this particular visit. Sharon makes her pastries with bear fat. They talked of the six otters they had seen outside in the Salmon River that morning. Newt tore through his mail, furiously writing checks as he went. "This is one of the few places where the bills are late before they get here," he explained. "Computers don't understand that...
...University of Idaho research station, Ray had dropped off his first passenger and picked up Jim Akenson, who had been studying cougars and elk but was now "coming out" to visit family. People along the Salmon River, the River of No Return the pioneers called it, speak of leaving or returning as "going out" and "coming in," or "leaving the river" and "coming to the river." Jim had known Newt and Sharon by radio for 30 months but had never met them. They live 65 miles apart. "You don't look the way I pictured you," said...