Word: turnip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...triumph is the Fountain, in the Four Seasons Hotel that opened in 1983. Delectable and pricey masterpieces include the wild-boar pate, shrimp-filled ravioli in a frothy, piquant butter sauce, and a stylish appetizer salad of snow peas and tender slivers of warm, sauteed squid. A golden-brown turnip sauce burnishes a sauteed veal chop, juicy roast pheasant tops cabbage mellowed with bacon, and hazelnuts accent a silky chocolate ramekin...
Sweettable is not a complete disaster; Ribman is a smart guy, and there are many good ideas and clever chunks of writing in this work. The superb cast and designers work hard to bring out the best of this dramatic turnip, and damned if they don't squeeze out a little dramatic blood--but it's sweated drop by drop from the brows of the actors...
...reproducing the author's signature and some superfluous vista photographs a la Falcon Crest. Inevitably, there are many of the California cliches -- hot goat cheese, cold pasta and dangerously raw salmon. Nevertheless, this erratic chef has a talent for simple dishes, among them lobster gazpacho, warm duck salad with turnip pancake, chopped lamb steak au poivre, T-bone steak cowboy style, a luscious warm vegetable stew and a fragrant polenta pound cake with Madeira cream...
...next day we get to interrogate the suspects. They are played by a bunch of writers like Westlake and some people on the hotel staff. In between the interrogations, the writers talk to us. Now a guy like myself didn't just fall off the turnip truck. I mean, I caught on right away they were hawking their books. I liked some of it, though. For instance, Martin Cruz Smith, the guy that wrote Gorky Park, was asked whether the movie Gorky Park followed the book, and Smith said, "Yeah, like a mugger follows a victim." I liked that...
...some reservation, so the lawyers and bankers can come in and get civilization started. Every bank in Texas ought to pay us a commission for the work we done. If we hadn't done it, all the bankers would still be back in Georgia, living on poke salad and turnip greens...