Word: gras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Michel Montignac ogles a slice of foie gras marinated in Cognac. He beams over a chocolate mousse swimming in lavender-flavored sauce and, closing his eyes, dreamily sniffs a glass of Bordeaux. Delicious, yes, but surely these rich offerings are as fattening as French food...
...former pharmaceutical-company executive has made a mint telling Gallic gourmands what they want to hear. His empire, dubbed "La Galaxie Montignac," is an $11 million-a-year business with a chain of food boutiques, a vineyard producing Chateau Michel Montignac Bordeaux, a mail-order firm selling Montignac foie gras and Montignac chocolate, a quarterly magazine, an Institute of Vitality and Nutrition through which 350 physicians prescribe his method, and a company offering one- day diet seminars for corporate executives at $420 a head. Last October, Montignac opened a 240-seat restaurant near the Paris stock exchange. This month...
Montignac's method, based on "a synthesis of my scientific readings," strictly limits starches, sweets and alcohol during an initial weight-loss period of several months. Then, in the maintenance phase of the diet, he allows such goodies as red wine, sausage canapes, foie gras, cheese and the occasional chocolate dessert. Whole grains are in. Soft drinks are "poison." Alcoholic aperitifs are discouraged, and wine is to be drunk only with meals...
...appetizers, why not try 20 ounces of Beluga caviar (Table water crackers, $3 per box), or 98.33 ounces of fois gras pate with truffles, or prepare something for yourself with 20 French truffles ($50 per 1-oz. truffle). Wash it all down with the popular $700-per-bottle special-order Chateau Petrus 1985 (red), all from Cardullo's, 6 Brattle Street...
...friend Chris (I would have taken one of you, but I knew that you would all be busy editing) was a bit upset about the no free drinks policy, but I, as a non-drinker, had nothing to complain about. And the pate de foie gras was superb...