Word: foodstuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good meals, ça va sans dire, should not be corseted by classic formulas or restricted to scarce foodstuff. This is what nouvelle cuisine is all about: less emphasis on heavy, masking sauces, greater reliance on the fresh flesh, fish, fowl and vegetables that can be encouraged to speak for themselves. Jean and Pierre Troisgros most elegantly practice the new cookery at their three-star restaurant in the Rhone Valley. In The Nouvelle Cuisine (Morrow; 254 pages; $12.95), the chers frères range easily from red mullet with beef marrow to that little-known marvel, coupe-jarret, which consists...
SOYLENT GREEN is not a park outside London, but a foodstuff supposedly manufactured from high-energy plankton. It is the very staff of life for the beleaguered citizens of smog-shrouded, dangerously overcrowded New York City in the year 2022, where there are nearly 200 murders a day and only a rich man can afford cigarettes. The plot of this intermittently interesting science-fiction thriller is about a cop (Charlton Heston) whose investigations lead him to the true and appalling origin of soylent green. The story is rather less notable than the fact that its alarming social prognosis has already...
South Vietnamese troops made yet another drive into Laos and destroyed 12 huts and a quantity of foodstuff and ammunition, according to Lt. Col. Le Trung Hien. The attack was disclosed Wednesday night by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu...