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...tasty recipes. The Keyses do not eat "carving meat" - steaks, chops, roasts - more than three times a week, and a single entree normally is not repeated more than once every three weeks. For cocktails they have martinis or negronis (¼ gin, ¼ Campari bitters, ¼ sweet or dry vermouth, ¼ soda water, over ice in an old-fashioned glass). The typical Keys dinner contains 1,000 calories, only 20% of which come from fats of any kind, 5% from saturated fats. A sample menu: pasta al brodo (turkey broth with noodles), veal scallopine a la Marsala, fresh green beans, homemade...
...fulcrum of this wry comedy of commuterland. In establishing squatter's rights on the Peter De Vries-John Cheever territory. Author Roswell G. Ham Jr. (Fish Flying Through Air) is a trifle unsure of himself, but he has some of the same deft flair for eyedropping vermouth into the suburban martini...
...there were 150 inquiries from adventurous yachtsmen as far away as California, and hungry would-be sponsors clamored for a slice of the publicity pie. RCA offered radios, Autolite supplied batteries, and Plymouth Gin solicitously insisted on stocking each boat with a "survival kit"-one part gin, one part vermouth, and a guide to martini mixing...
Foreigners visiting the unfamiliar New World have their problems, though it is just a canard spread by Columnist Art Buchwald that a Frenchman wrote home that he had a hard time finding a martini with enough vermouth in it. Last year a member of the Japanese Diet toured the U.S. accompanied by an aide loaded down with gallon bottles of sake, a huge box of rice, Japanese pickles, soy sauce and seaweed. Twice nearly ejected from hotels for cooking odoriferous concoctions in his room, he was upbraided when he got back home for causing Japan bad publicity. His explanation...
...least 47 seats, a gain the campaign manager himself had ruled out beforehand as "impossible." "The fight of the 20 against one has ended with the complete failure of the 20," crowed Ben-Gurion. His nimbus of white hair awhirl, the old (73) warrior jubilantly raised a glass of vermouth, proclaimed his victory toast: "To life...