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...black band box hats, they will explain at length that England's first Tudor king, Henry VII, recruited them in 1485 to serve as his personal bodyguard, and that they earned their proud name in 1669 when the Grand Duke of Tuscany wrote: "They are great eaters of beef . . . They might be called beefeaters." By custom, each must have distinguished himself in service with the army or royal marines...
...rugs and draperies, and running ice water. Pride & joy of Executive Chef "Lugot of the Waldorf" is the pushbutton kitchen, visible to bife-savoring patrons in all its stainless-steel sublimity through a long window that runs the entire width of the hotel's grill room. Pronouncing Uruguayan beef the equal of Argentina's finest, Chef Lugot undertakes to serve it any style, with any of 96 sauces...
...most countries' standards, Argentina has plenty of beef. But Argentines are just about the most carnivorous people on earth, stowing away an average of 235 Ibs. of meat a year, mostly beef. (U.S. average: 130 Ibs., about half of it beef.) Despite heavy home consumption, Argentina used to have lots of beef for export. Then Juan Perón & Co. began tinkering with the national economy. A soak-the-farmers policy cut heavily into grain and cattle production. Last year, despite severely curtailed beef exports, Buenos Aires got its first taste of a meat shortage, with meatless days...
...problem is to export more beef to pay for essential imports without making the beef-loving voters at home too unhappy. In the drive to bring down meat consumption, Health Minister Carrillo is trying to scare his countrymen into becoming vegetarians. At a busy corner in downtown Buenos Aires, he has put up a "Health Cooking" stand featuring free, meatless recipes, and a huge blackboard warning of disorders, from gallstones to high blood pressure, which he insists are caused by excessive meat-eating...
Editor Edgar Johnson has written an excellent introduction to the book and helped the continuity with informative notes. He challenges Bernard Shaw's opinion that Dickens wrote nothing but "roast beef and Yorkshire pudding letters," and these letters bear...