Word: salmone
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...salmon-poaching scandal
Charles Darwin would have loved the British salmon, school of 83. Returning this month as they do annually from their far-flung North Atlantic feeding grounds to rivers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales where they were spawned, the great game fish face a hazardous course that only the fittest survive. Along the way they are likely to encounter far more than the simple lures of sportsmen who gladly pay up to $3,000 a week for riverbank angling rights. The fish must also run an illicit gauntlet of nets, gaffs, snares, spears, dynamite, electric shocks, even poison, believed...
...younger brother Pierre turned their small-town family restaurant in Roanne into a mecca for traveling gourmets. Rejecting the heavy tradition of French haute cuisine, with its sumptuous dishes and rich sauces, the Troisgros brothers highlighted the freshness of ingredients used in such elegantly simple recipes as their classic salmon with sorrel sauce and the eclectic coupe-jarret, which consists of five different meats cooked in a kettle. Dashingly handsome, Troisgros eschewed the globetrotting celebrity of other nouvelle masters and stayed close to his restaurant. In 1968 Les Freres Troisgros received the supreme three-star accolade of the Guide Michelin...
...piled with tempting brochures for British holidays, confesses "frustration at writing about tours rather than going on them. So come the weekend, I joined a group going to the upper reaches of the Scottish Highlands. I even went fishing in Loch Maree and came up with a 10-lb. salmon...
...appetizers were pate, salmon mousse, cheese and crackers and wine. The main dish was politics. That, and a cool summer breeze brought a couple dozen city activists to the spacious, woody backyard of a private home just off Brattle St. Wednesday night...