Word: stockpot
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...Julia Child. The wood-notes wild, the vibrato delivery, the blue-eyed conspiratorial beam have changed little since the first segment of The French Chef went out over the Boston area's WGBH-TV on Feb. 11, 1963. Only this time, as the camera closes in on stockpot and saute pan, cleaver and colander, the mistress of cuisine is not demonstrating the joy of Gallic cooking. Dinner at Julia's, her new 13-part public television series, which will start in October, celebrates American cooking, ingredients and wines with such dishes as poached Alaska salmon, duckburger with wild...
Children are also heeding the Pied Piper's call to wok and roll in the kitchen. From the capital's Georgetown Day School to 30 department-store seminars?organized in 15 states by Philadelphia's Lea Bramnick and Rita Simon?the generation gap is being bridged with sauce and stockpot. Says Simon: "Children who have learned how to shop in a supermarket become demons of perfection, picking fruit that is ripe, examining vegetables for soft spots, watching the best buys...
...mercenaries, native and expatriate, staking their futile claims." Among them is Margaret Harbottle, one of the ubiquitous breed of freeloaders who roam the world as travel writers, and a toadish old sultan called Buffles, who keeps the past alive with elaborate polo parties. The village itself is a cultural stockpot of Chinese secret societies, Communist cells, Indian sports clubs and groups calling themselves the South Malaysian Pineapple Growers' Association, the Muslim League, the Legion of Mary and the Methodist Ramblers...
...weekend is a way of life, the long lunch more and more a relic of the past. Huge supermarket chains dispense packaged, preprocessed foods at a speed?and a price?that is fast making the kitchen stockpot and the corner charcuterie obsolete. In Paris, said newspaper ads last week, 300,000 people have already seen Steve McQueen in Bullitt, and the lines are still long. A house specialty of Le Drug Store, now ten years old and still In, is an ice cream sundae with chocolate sauce and a shot of bourbon. They call the result "Coupe Old Crow...