Word: seafoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything on the menu is spicy, and expertly prepared. Casa's straight-forward fare is based around enchiladas and tostadas (mainly combinations of meat, chicken or cheese rolled in dough, and usually served with beans and rice) and a few seafood dishes...
...Legal Seafood...
...weeks after their arrival, the customs authorities finally auctioned off the turtles to a seafood wholesaler near Paris for the bargain price of $2,200. Though pet lovers were worried at the news of this ominous sale, a company spokesman last week issued a calming statement: "These aren't the kind of sea turtles that go into soup. We are selling them to children, and we have already sold 8,000. By next week we will have sold 10,000. I can reassure everyone that this turtle story has a happy ending...
...crushed ice to serve as brobdingnagian coolers for the champagne. Chef Henry Haller borrowed a huge blender from the Pentagon to purée 90 quarts of strawberries for the dessert. Two hundred extra butlers were recruited to help serve a feast that began with suprême of seafood Neptune (crabmeat, tiny shrimps and scallops in sauce) served with hearts of palm and proceeded, with grateful disregard for the high price of meat, to roast sirloin of beef. Military orchestras and Les Brown's band provided music, and Bob Hope played host at the after-dinner show...
Jimmy's, in fact, is a different sort of world, and Co-Owner Sid Davidoff is the first to admit it. "Pavilion we're not," he says. Jimmy's menu is in keeping with the clientele the restaurant was designed to attract: steaks, chops and seafood for the New York politicians, writers and celebrities who jammed its ample premises (once occupied by Toots Shor's) on opening night last week. As the cop outside put it that evening: "We have the immediate world here." No small assets are the connections Davidoff and Partner Richard Aurelio made...