Word: zakuska
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Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, on a recent quick trip to Moscow, was wined & dined by correspondents, who treated him to a $50-a-person supper of zakuska and borsch (hors d'oeuvres and vegetable soup), scalloped veal, etc. When a Red Army captain was invited over from another table, Colonel Roosevelt insisted, after a due amount of casual conversation, that the captain be told, off the record, the colonel's identity. The captain was at first incredulous, then convinced and delighted. Toasts to President Roosevelt, Stalin, the Second Front were exchanged; finally the beaming Russian whispered to his friend...
Charm and Champagne. When the concert was over, Molotov led the dash for the eats. There were ten dining rooms, all heavily laden with food and drinks. Zakuska (Russian hors d'oeuvres) was so plentiful that by the time the hot dishes arrived, hours later, nobody was hungry except the waiters, who kept filling up plates and tucking them away behind portieres. The food was excellent and wound up in a blaze of crepes suzettes, ice creams and purple champagne...
...summer of 1932, while Germany and Russia were still slapping each other's backs, Manstein donned civilian clothes, went to Russia for a look. At the Kharkov station a leather-jacketed Soviet commissar bounced in, offered Manstein vodka and zakuska. While the surprised visitor was gulping the fiery drink, another commissar dashed in, pulled the first one aside. Both then approached Manstein, stuttering, red-faced: "Mistake. ... It was a mistake. . . . We thought you were Comrade Thälmann...
...dinner, grey-clad and booted, Dictator Stalin regaled his guests with a seven-hour, ten-course meal including cold and hot zakuska (hors d'oeuvres), bowls of caviar, flagons of cognac and vodka, which many of the Russians chose to lace with red pepper. Thirty-one bottoms-up toasts were drunk (some guests hazily estimated 37); Dictator Stalin preferred cognac. Among those toasted were Major Alva Harvey and Lieut. Lou Reichers of the U.S. Army Air Corps, who had flown the U.S. delegates to Moscow. They received the Dictator's handshake...
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