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...need to be literally swimming in butter, but the morel mushrooms were also fresh and flavorful. In another entrée bright spot, the pork and garlic sausage player in the Blue Room’s mixed grill ($21 for the sausage and two tasty, if unexceptional, portions of squab and sweetbreads) was well-prepared and pleasingly garlicky. Even spicy mustard and sautéed onions would do this link a grave disservice...
...England (try the Fuller’s) beers, the Blue Room amusingly offers a quart of Budweiser ($6.25), which they will bring to your table in the same chilled marble presentation as a bottle of white wine. You have to admire a place that offers sweetbreads and squab but can still artfully serve 32 ounces of pure mediocre American beer. Specialty drinks include Nick’s Red Sangria (glass $5, pitcher $19), vodka-blackberry lime rickey ($6) and—if things aren’t going too well—a “Dark and Stormy?...
...Salomon Brothers, the base salary is $150,000 a year, and at other investment houses it ranges as high as $450,000, far less than the average player in baseball gets. But that's only the subsistence wage, to tide people over so they can put squab on the table and pay the housekeepers until the real money is doled out in annual bonuses. These bonuses run into seven figures, and if you've had a great year at the computer terminal, you could take home twice as much as Barry Bonds. And, as in baseball, you get paid...
Meats included stag, gazelle, kid, lamb, mutton, squab and a bird called tarru. Frequently mentioned seasonings included onions, garlic and leeks, while stews were often thickened with grains, milk, beer or animal blood. Salt was sometimes mentioned...
...popular spot is the rambling garden with flowers and yellow umbrellas. The moderately priced food has a homemade freshness, with such creations as prettily garnished salads, bright carpaccio of beef, or steamed clams, oysters and mussels in a chive + broth. Moist Dover sole, broiled with bread crumbs, and grilled squab nested on pecan-studded wild rice are fine main courses, and there are outstanding desserts, among them a little box of chocolate wrapped around framboise- moistened chocolate cake...