Word: veale
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...political, not professional pull that ruled who was in what constellation. Giving her first public singing performance in six years, Barbra Streisand opened her Malibu ranch to the wallets of Jack Nicholson, Bette Midler, Jane Fonda and some 500 others who shelled out an astronomical $2,500 apiece for veal from Spago (very haute) and a backyard concert (very hot). Organized by the Hollywood Women's Political Committee to support six Democratic senatorial candidates, the affair was taped by HBO. Streisand crooned old favorites (People, The Way We Were) as well as new variations (Throw Out the Clowns), explaining that...
...feed the alumni, Harvard Dining Serviceswill cater dishes from beef and veal to coldcucumber soup. On Saturday night, alumni living inthe nine river houses will get a special treat:shrimp cocktail, roast beef bernaise and GrandMarnier chocolate cake...
...upperclassmen say that the administration teaching us to be better blow-offs. If not for the Harvard schedule-makers, we'd have to do all the work during the semester, like the demi-humans in Cabot Library. The administration's helping us be non-students. Okay. And that was veal you had last night...
...never look at a menu, and I never give them the same thing twice. Others like familiar dishes and order them in advance. I try to please them and often serve dishes like choucroute (Alsace's national dish of sauerkraut, sausages and assorted cuts of pork) or my original veal with kidneys as a daily special. I like to try new combinations, not that anything is really original. Every 'invention' in the nouvelle cuisine can be found in some form in old cookbooks. And I know one thing. No matter what they say about wanting light food and liking...
...carte main courses at $8.25 that evoked gasps from customers. Nor was its success instantaneous. In a review written one month after Lutece opened, Craig Claiborne, then the restaurant critic for the New York Times, allowed that two dishes -- foie gras baked in a brioche loaf and roast veal stuffed with truffled kidneys -- were superb, but, he summarized, "the food at Lutece could not be called great cuisine...