Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five-course luncheon for Giscard to demonstrate the glories of the new French cuisine that emphasizes improvisation with the day's freshest food. The chefs will go to market that same morning to choose the food and then they will take over the Elysee Palace kitchen. The wine will be mostly vintage '26, the year in which both Bocuse and Giscard were born. Bocuse has already approved the stove: "It is a real old-fashioned one that is perfect to cook...
...rather than subject matter, and he had a portrait of himself painted with a scrap of musical score in one hand. There is something more than a little bogus about Pepys the aesthete, as if he collected his culture the way he built up his cellar (he was a wine snob who kept his Haut-Brion claret in a cask). His custom-de signed carriage may have meant as much to Pepys as his carefully acquired prints. And nothing seemed to have meant more to this tailor's son on the make than his sumptuous wardrobe - at a time...
...United Farm Workers and their supporters at Harvard announced last night they plan to confront Ernest Gallo of the Gallo Wine Co. with petitions condemning his company when he comes to the Business School today to recruit executives...
...familiarity with high cuisine, wine and good tailoring was thus all naturally acquired. So too was his profound abhorrence of totalitarianism. Says Angleton: "If one has lived much of his life abroad, as I have, one is apt to judge his country more precious than do those who know no other country well." He recalls the day in 1936, when he was 18 and working through a summer holiday as an apprentice mechanic in National Cash Register's Paris factory, that the workers heard about the Wehrmacht reoccupation of the Rhineland. Says Angleton: "The workers to a man threw...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Support Committee supports the boycott of Gallo wines for three main reasons. First, we believe that all workers have a right to choose their own union in free election. Second, we feel that all evidence points to the fact that the UFW is the farm workers' choice. Third, we believe that farm workers should be supported in their-struggle against bad working conditions, poor material benefits, and racism. We have gone to stores in the Harvard Square area, asking them to stop selling Gallo wine, and all have agreed except the Harvard provision Co. The boycott can only...