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...Chef Dione Lucas remains a purist. She calmly refuses the customary TV gimmicks, chats informally with a sprinkling of wit and common sense as she displays her skill with a skillet. Last week she demonstrated paupiettes de veau Fontage and the unexpurgated chicken marengo (two small chickens are browned in sweet butter; a hen lobster is sautéed, then shelled; chickens and lobster are flamed in cognac, sprinkled with an aromatic sauce of tomatoes, mushrooms, shallots, tarragon and dry vermouth, garnished with fried eggs on croutons and slices of truffles). Chef Lucas makes it look easy, but any housewife...
Eggs for the Skillet...
...wish there were more men of his financial and organizing ability who understand that the skillet is more effective in fighting Communism than the sword...
...stands on every street corner in the city sold the tender delicacies like hot franks at Coney Island. Then the bird lovers of Madrid's S.P.C.A. stepped in, flooding the city with leaflets quoting St. Francis of Assisi, who liked his birds on the wing and not the skillet. The fried birds were driven off the street corners and into the taverns...
...party. Driving to a nearby ranch house, he "borrowed" from the flustered housewife a slab of bacon, a pound of butter, a large paper bag, cornmeal, salt & pepper. Thus equipped, he moved on to a campsite where he built a fire and set the bacon frying in a skillet. While it fried, he put cornmeal, salt & pepper in the bag, and shook the cleaned fish in it. "Never put batter on a fish," said he. When a goodly amount of fat had melted from the bacon, he added an equal amount of butter to the pan and laid...