Word: tearooms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...served upstairs at night. That seems to be the least successful fare, primarily because of overdone, often sweet garnishes -- oranges in an otherwise luscious lobster ! salad, a cloyingly sugary bed of sauteed onions overpowering the delicate Dover sole meuniere. Another problem at all meals in all rooms is the tearoom breads, delicious by themselves but poor as foils for wine, the satiny American smoked salmon and the elegant terrine of truffled duck liver. Other fine dinner appetizers were the silken lobster-filled ravioli with chanterelles and hazelnuts and a ragout of wild mushrooms. Among main courses, moist, roasted pheasant with...
Mentor to dozens of young and would-be food professionals, Beard was just right for the role of pioneering good, honest cooking when fanciness in the U.S. meant Fannie Farmer tearoom aberrations or their equally dismal counterparts, pseudo-Continental conceits. For Americans uninterested in food, he began the process of making its subtle pleasures accessible. For Americans overawed by Europe's haughty haute cuisine, he brought good news of the merits to be found in the U.S. culinary heritage...
...what it's like to be a working mother, "racing around the kitchen in a pair of bedroom slippers, trying to quick-thaw a chop under each armpit . . ." Shared responsibilities? "Transporting children is my husband's 26th favorite thing; it comes somewhere between eating lunch in a tearoom and dropping a bowling ball on his foot." Listen, let me tell...
...comes Hally (Lonny Price), the teen-age son of the owners of the tearoom. He is instantly at ease, having spent more warm and happy hours since boyhood with the servants than with his parents. Sam and Hally teasingly argue about whether dancing is an art or merely entertainment. Hally scoffs that the dancers fumble around and bump into one another. No, says Sam, seraphically. "It is like being in a dream about a world without collisions...and it's beautiful because that's what we want life to be like...
...aircraft, spotter planes, radar trucks, tanks, artillery, antiaircraft batteries, radio rigs, armored personnel carriers, lines of trucks, gasoline tankers, innumerable smaller vehicles. Huge transports, some in Aeroflot's blue and white paint, others in military silver, come and go. The view from the departure lounge and the airport tearoom is like Red Square in Moscow on the anniversary of the October Revolution. About the only weapon missing from this panoply of Soviet military might is an ICBM...