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Dinners at the White House these days are so tasteful that nobody rushes to a phone later to chortle about the peanut soup and catfish paté. Diana could spin one delicious backbite like that into a column. Now, she says, the absolute, ultimate social event in Western civilization is the small dinner given by Ronnie and Nancy in the private quarters. The one coming up for Britain's Charles and his Diana will, in McLellan's view, elevate the 80 participants to social sainthood...
...might expect to find in Paul Kovi's Transylvanian Cuisine (Crown; $15.95). And, in fact, there is a recipe for stuffed bear's foot and another for brain sausages. For the most part, though, Kovi's dishes are more benign: juicy sauerkraut glowing with paprika, subtle tarragon-scented fish soup and mushroom-stuffed carp, crisp roast goose and leg of veal with goose liver, kohlrabi nestled in egg barley and, for a delicate touch, "blushing tomatoes in sour cherry vinegar." Eggplant, cornmeal, strudels and the fragrant honey cake mézeskalács are all included...
Back in August 1968, Lyndon Johnson convened one of his Tuesday lunches to plot the Viet Nam War. These were often grim affairs, where discouraging news was ladled out with the soup. On that particular Tuesday, however, he was bubbling over with a secret. He had the stewards bring in a little "sherry wine" and pour each of his aides a glass. Then he announced that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would soon begin nuclear arms talks, and he and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin would hold a summit to seal the deal. That afternoon Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia on their...
...first-rate wine list. The oldest vintage dates back to 1704 (yours for a mere $3,227). More reasonable was a $36 bottle of 1989 Breuer Riesling from the Bischofberg vineyard. As I swirled my glass and dipped crusts of dense rye bread into my Riesling-and-cheese soup, an oompah band pounded in the distance--a perfect German winery experience...
...soup bowl of vanilla frozen yogurt