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...protein appears to be a useful adjunct to the treatment of obesity, but, as with any other diet, regular medical supervision is essential." Their findings appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and caused only the faintest ripple among reducing authorities. But a free-lance writer and professional gourmet named Roy de Groot, serving as a night telephone operator at the institute, had been one of the out-clinic patients. He wrote a hopped-up account (published in Look magazine) of the diet's wonders and how it had taken 45 Ibs. off his roly-poly...
Died. Maurice-Edmond Sailland, 83, bald, rotund (220 Ibs.) Gallic gourmet better known by his self-styled title Prince Curnonsky, founder (1928) of France's famed Académie des Gastronomes and head of 27 gastronomical societies, prolific culinary writer (France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes); after accidentally falling from a window of his fourth-floor apartment; in Paris...
...edification of the inquiring gourmet, hasty pudding itself is a type of Indian meal garnished liberally with cinnamon, sugar, spices, and cloves. It is so concocted that any type of alcoholic beverage will serve as a worthy accompaniment...
...George's daughter Jenny, by now a remarkably early-blooming 13-year-old begins stalking Alexis. At novel's end, Alexis runs off with the contessa, but in effect tells Jenny to go stand in a corner for five years until she is suitably aged for his gourmet pallet. If it ever took itself any more seriously than a popping champagne cork, Aspects of Love would be silly and embarrassing. But in his neo-pagan way, Novelist Garnett, 63, is deftly amusing. He also demonstrates that if an Englishman really tries, he can be a lot more Gallic...
...Tillich not only thinks about these aspects of life, but throws himself as actively as possible into each of them. Even in the area of food and drink, he has little patience with the ministry's traditional attitude of teetotaling and asceticism, and is, in fact, something of a gourmet. As one young faculty member admiringly puts it, the eminent theologian is "a good man to share a bottle of wine with...