Word: venison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student (Lutheran) who likes to dwell on food when he is not thinking about key signatures. While rehearsing a Haydn Notturno for his second concert, he says, "I told the orchestra, 'This music was intended to be played after a heavy dinner of turtle soup, a souffle, duckling, venison, ice, and crepe suzette! And now play with all that in your stomach.' They understood...
...14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Within a decade, he made his hostelry the city's social and political clubhouse -partly because there was nothing better, partly because of the Lucullan table he set. At an 1859 banquet for the departing British ambassador, Willard's offered up pheasants, venison, prairie hens, Virginia hams, lobsters, partridges and some 30 other dishes...
...right now. As the 1967 fall season got under way last week, the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife offered the welcome news that no fewer than 8,500,000 mallard ducks will take to the flyways this year. For those with a palate for venison, there are 16 million deer roaming the U.S. countryside. The 110 species of game that hunters can now lay their sights on include scores of creatures that their grandfathers never even heard...
...Mount Kenya to the bamboo-jungle-surrounded Secret Valley Game Lodge, a two-story building set on tree-trunk stilts, rent a room for $15 a day (including meals) and gaze in perfect safety at leopards that slink out of the night to feed on baited venison beneath a battery of floodlights. In the "other Africa"-to the north-the scenes and the accommodations are considerably different. Algeria has fallen far behind in tourist facilities. But in Morocco, there are hundreds of miles of beaches in the Blue Country, where the Sahara Desert touches the Atlantic and the sun shines...
...less famous but no less ambitious ones. And though they boast of the barons and movie stars who patronize them, in fact the ordinary working-class German accounts for an increasingly large slice of the business. As one Bonn sociologist points out, the workingman uses smoked eel, sturgeon, venison, curried-rice salad, or even chocolate-covered grasshoppers to liven up his traditional light evening meal. "Today," says Alfred Peters of Michelsen's, which claims to be the largest importer of caviar in West Germany, "it's nothing for the lower classes to come in here and purchase caviar...