Word: epicureans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jackpot. The campaign has had its effect on service. Reservation clerks, sporting straw skimmers with hatbands proclaiming "Happiness," give the weather report as they announce the gate number. While demonstrating oxygen masks, stewardesses tell passengers about the epicurean banquet that lies ahead. One Pittsburgh cargo handler helped his group win by carrying a big box out to a shipping customer's car, stowing it in the trunk, then walking around to open the car door-and bowing...
...such new-found laws were not about to move Proprietor A. W. Richberg. When the Federal Government sued, Richberg simply renamed the cafe's white section "Dixie Diner Club" and added bylaws promising "the creation of an atmosphere conducive to the development of connoisseurs of discriminating taste and epicurean pleasures." The name was all that Richberg changed...
...recent visitor described Rich berg's today as a "rusty-spoon." Customers still take "epicurean pleasures" by ordering seven hamburgers for $1 while waiting for their cars to be greased and oiled outside. The sleazy dining room is decorated with a rack of used shotguns and rifles, draped with a six-foot belt of machine-gun blanks. The counter area is brightened with stacks of knives, machetes, auto parts and a shelf of used pistols...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes a century ago when a rival merchant sought the patronage of that autocrat's famous breakfast table, "and I don't dare change." A bulwark of proper Bostonian life for most of its 136 years, the haute cuisine grocery chain has long filled an epicurean niche in U.S. gastronomy. With its own coat of arms adorning a distinctive red label on canned goods, and the largest line (5,000 items) of privately packed fancy foods in the world, S.S. Pierce sells its delicacies not only through eight New England stores of its own but also...
Edith Palmer's Country Inn, Virginia City, Nev. Rich and exotic dishes, ranging from beef Stroganoff to san-juck, an epicurean dish of the Korean upper class, prepared by Owner Edith Palmer Kolodziej. Expensive...