Word: stroganoff
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...Perkins, who claimed that married women in business were more neurotic than single women; with Singer Joni James, about how much you have to spend on clothes when you're successful (plenty); and with Bobo Rockefeller, when I got her favorite standby recipe for unexpected guests: 'Beef Stroganoff with lots of cream and butter...
...Recipe. From the start of the cold war, censorship was always ironhanded, often mysterious. In 1947, when Gilmore filed a light feature story on how Russian housewives cook shashlik and beef Stroganoff, the censor deleted everything in the story except the recipe, apparently because he thought the discussion of Russian eating habits was intended to make them look barbaric. Newsmen never set eyes on the censors or knew who they were. They simply took three copies of every story to entrance No. 10 at the Moscow Central Telegraph Office. If the story cleared quickly, newsmen got it back...
...week Chatô pulled off his flashiest fund-raising stunt: a fiesta on the cruiser Almirante Tamandaré (once the U.S.S. St. Louis) in Rio Harbor. Piped aboard from gigs and barges came Senators, ministers, governors and industrialists, together with their ladies. Chatô greeted them, fed them Beef Stroganoff and champagne punch, and made a speech...
Most of the world's gastronomic jargon was created in the 18th and 19th Centuries by log-rolling cooks to commemorate their masters' favorite dishes. Some European aristocrats were also amateur cooks and imposed their names on their concoctions, e.g., Count Stroganoff, a 19th Century Russian diplomat and inventor of Beef Stroganoff.* Sometimes chefs also designated dishes in honor of great events, e.g., Pheasant a la Holy Alliance...
...over bamboo fences at unsuspecting neighbors while the neighbors look for Flying Saucers. However, with food as costly as it is, other observers doubt that anything except a Thudwunk would throw noodles. One possibly significant variation on this story came from Nanking, where a Thudwunk was observed throwing beef Stroganoff followed by kasha à la Gourieff. This has led inflammatory elements of the Chinese press to suggest that Thudwunks are the creation of a certain foreign power. The Chinese Air Force is alerted...