Word: veau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more succulent than the creamy pink flesh of milk-fed calf, whether married to crabmeat, crawfish, shrimp, lobster or tuna, or stewed, stuffed, sauced, roasted or grilled, or divided into what some call the ''odd parts." such as brains, sweetbreads and soup bones. Indeed, le petit veau is a centerpiece of all the great cuisines save the Chinese. The book's most notable contribution may be a simplified recipe for côtes de veau Orloff, that unusually hard-to-prepare confection of glazed chops with pureed onions and mushrooms that was one of czarist Russia...
...rard's favorite dishes, l'aiguillette de caneton au poivre frais (breast of duckling in pepper sauce), packed a belt-whopping 700 calories per serving in his original version; the minceur variety contains 280. Guérard can prepare a celestial blanquette de veau, which to most Frenchmen is something only their mothers can do properly; but Guérard's blanquette contains 280 calories per serving, v. Mother's 1,000. A typical 500-calorie menu at Eugenie-les-Bains last season included: first day-mousseline of crayfish with watercress sauce, leg of milk...
...Valk is a plebeian with little formal education. But he reads a lot, looks hard at the world and thinks fast. He also has a blonde French wife who provides Gallic insight and underdone foie de veau, modifying her husband's tendency toward Dutch stolidity. In short, Van der Valk is the perfect medium through which Freeling, himself a multilingual, self-educated, cultural nomad, can express his own sharp-eyed perceptions of life. While getting on with the crime, readers are treated to idioms in several languages and quotes from the likes of Horace and Kipling. They are also...
...clothing-from wild lingerie to see-through shirts to sexy pants and fancy wigs. There are cigarettes from India and Japan and France, newspapers and magazines from Paris, Parisian cosmetics, chic boots, bags and belts. A delicatessen offers the usual fare-along with bouillabaisse, ris de veau and lobster en croûte. The bookshop stocks current bestsellers, as well as a discreet selection of high-class pornography and perceptive sampling of the overseas and underground press...