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...LUNCHTIME on a December day in 1981, and about a dozen casually dressed young men and women are sitting around a U-shaped wooden table in Eliot House, eating a meal of beef stew, salad, and liqueur-laced icecream, served to them by a staff of two who pop in and out of an adjoining kitchen. It is one of three meals the group has each week around the table. The previous night, they donned suits and gowns for a weekly formal dinner; three days later, they will return for another informal lunch...
...such delicate provincial dishes as dandelion salad, poularde en demi-deuil and sole with stuffed artichoke bottoms (preferably using the slippery little fish known in Bordeaux as "lawyers' tongues"), as well as such robust peasant offerings as potato pie, braised partridge with lentils, and stufatu, a Corsican beef stew with macaroni...
...jazzed-up version, can be a treat. Indeed, a number of traditional dishes are in danger of becoming fashionable. Among them: lemony Sussex Pond pudding; Hindle Wakes, a prune-flavored cold poached chicken dish; Welsh onion cake and cockie leekie (chicken-leek) soup; chicken stovies, a succulent Scottish stew; syllabub, the English answer to zabaglione...
...Mass Ave apartment and the evening was entirely casual. "It started out really tacky and studenty," recalls Richard Linowes, a Business School student who has been part of Mitchell's organizing committee and a regular attendee since the series began. "At that time the big dish was fish stew...
...Dragon Stew, It's So Nice to Have a Wok Around the House, Miss Nelson is Missing and The Island of Skog--Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 2:30 p.m.; Off the Wall Cinema, 15 Pearl...