Word: tomatos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. David Burpee, 87, horticulturist whose mail order seed business, W. Atlee Burpee Co., developed the first commercially available tomato, cantaloupe and cucumber hybrids and sold 1,400 varieties of plants; in Doylestown...
...Craig Claiborne and James Beard, as well as Jacques Pépin, 44, onetime chef for Charles de Gaulle. Pépin's book, La Methode, won the grand prize. Gathering to receive their awards, the three pitched into a mélange of asparagus, zucchini, cauliflower, carrots, tomatoes, eggs and rack of baby lamb. What was it such eminent cuisiniers prepared as the camera recorded each deft whip and slice? "A mess," confessed Pépin, doffing his apron and sitting down to tomato bisque, piccata of veal, and pommes parisiennes, with a '78 Widmer Cayuga...