Word: watercress
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...meats: l'aspèrge d'Argenteuil, a sublime variety of violet-tipped asparagus, today produced by a single family; champignons de Paris, the mushrooms first grown in Paris catacombs (but today more often imported from China); Gâtinais saffron, once considered the world's finest; Mereville watercress; Pontoise cabbage; and Meaux-brie cheese...
...wasn't hard to find Larry the Cable Guy at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons. As the taut and the tanned tucked into their watercress salads served on Limoges china, a husky guy in Army green shorts and a sleeveless Superman T-shirt showed up at the bar and asked for a Jim Beam and Coke. Were this a Ponderosa restaurant in almost any other town in America, Larry, whose real name is Dan Whitney, would be mobbed. Instead, because we're surrounded by the kind of people more likely to mob Jeffrey Katzenberg, I have the affable icon...
...dishes that have become instant clichés, like vichyssoise and quiche. Of vichyssoise made with substitute ingredients, she writes, "Those people, however, who won't stoop to tinned soups but still want to be in the swim with their vichyssoise, have taken to using cucumber instead of leeks, and watercress or mint instead of chives . . . The mixture is still thick and rich and cold--and what's, after all, in a name...
...overwhelmed by tomatoes. It was fabulous mushed up in the rice. Langsha duluma (sliced beef fried with eggplant and ginger) was not so impressive—but consistent with the general rule not to order anything too heavy. And my favorite was chhasha chhu tsel, chicken and watercress in a sizzling garlic and chili sauce, very light but with a crisp and tangy twist...
...three-tiered serving platter. Sipping our fragrant blends and nibbling on white chocolate cherry scone spread with delicious clotted cream, we could almost detect the slightest English lilt in our normal (American and Australian, respectively) speech patterns. The sandwiches were high-class variations on the traditional cucumber and watercress variety, and included carrot mousse on zucchini bread with curry butter, shrimp salad on scallion bread with chipotle-lime butter and sesame chicken on whole grain bread with watercress butter. The tea bread and scones were served with clotted cream as well as strawberry jam and tasty lemon curd. Though...