Word: soups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feed the alumni, Harvard Dining Serviceswill cater dishes from beef and veal to coldcucumber soup. On Saturday night, alumni living inthe nine river houses will get a special treat:shrimp cocktail, roast beef bernaise and GrandMarnier chocolate cake...
...Maxim's, the legendary fin-de-siecle set piece on Paris' Rue Royale, now owned by Pierre Cardin. In the New York outpost, the semi-nouvelle French cuisine has been more memorable for its price ($65 for prix-fixe dinner) than for its excellence. The cream of mussel soup known as billi-bi, a Maxim's invention, is decently turned out, but stale-tasting duck pate and the overly complicated, overcooked saddle of lamb with basil cream could not even be considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris setting, includes such embarrassingly corny touches...
...nurses' main attraction is their reasonable prices. Nurse Mary Baker, who heads a clinic called Chicken Soup Plus in Sacramento, charges only $30 for a pre-employment physical, far less than the $50-to-$75 fees that the city's doctors command. And, yes, she sometimes prescribes a pot of her own chicken soup, which she drops by a patient's home. Jean Sweeney-Dunn, who runs Community Nursing Services for the Elderly in Elmira, N.Y., asks $2 for a urine test and $5 for a blood-sugar analysis, a fraction of what a physician would charge...
...most nurse entrepreneurs did not go into business to make a fortune. In fact, Baker of Chicken Soup Plus says that her current income after expenses is not as high as the $30,000 to $36,000 that she once earned as a public health nurse. The value she puts on her independence, though, more than makes up the difference...
...Duck Soup today...