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...noises when swimming and sweet Penn Cove mussels vie for places on seafood menus with assorted salmons (coho, chinook, silver, sockeye, king) and several types of rockfish and cod. The silken black cod also known as sablefish is especially enticing in the pomegranate sauce that glosses it at Le Tastevin. Then there is geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck), a giant clam that can be sauteed with the robust Mediterranean seasonings that befit what might be described as clam-flavored squid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Dining North by Northwest | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...also something of a gourmet. He sometimes runs his wife out of the kitchen in order to experiment with an elaborate recipe a la Julia Child, and he is a connoisseur of wines-particularly the better red Burgundies and the finer clarets. He is even a Chevalier du Tastevin, something undreamed of in the philosophy of Horatio Alger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Burgher from Minnesota | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...cake plate lovingly decorated by an elderly woman in the Midwest. Luci has also reaped a harvest of gifts from two bridal showers-one in Waukegan, the other in Washington. At the latter, the bride-to-be received enough soufflé dishes to swamp the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin. Now the future Mrs. Nugent will have to learn to cook a souffl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Secrets, Showers & Souffl | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...private pleasures are elegantly expensive: salmon fishing in Scotland, cattle breeding on his 3,000-acre farm in Maryland, duck-shooting parties on the Chesapeake (he keeps his eye sharp on a pistol range in his basement). Copeland is also a gourmet and oenological expert who belongs to Le Tastevin, an exclusive society devoted to fine wines, and he employs a French chef who came to him from Lord Astor. He and his wife Pamela-their three children are grown-live in a 20-room, antique-filled Georgian mansion whose 300 acres are tended by 14 gardeners and protected, naturally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Master Technicians | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

Wine-tasting is not original with the Adams group. On the contrary, it dates back centuries in the history of Europe and still flourishes in many parts of the world. Perhaps the most well-known group is "Les Chevaliers de Tastevin", a French association. Because of its age, a great wealth of tradition has grown up around the "cult of wine." There are many established authorities on the subject of wine-tasting and the procedure is well fixed and followed...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Tastevins Seek 'Subtle Nuances' | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

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