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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...parlor interior is smaller but much lighter and brighter than Pewter Pot's. The menu is also twice as extensive. A silver-haired, grandmotherly woman will smile and bring you coffee while your waitress waddles over in her Elizabethan pantaloons. A glance down the menu reveals nothing exotic-just square Middle American fare. The only ethnic flavor maybe is a pale, faint hint of Pennsylvania Dutch that is suggested by the filling hot sandwiches and gravybread. The hot roast beef sandwich comes with a good bowl of French onion soup, the sopped bread floating on the top. Even...
...those who enjoy reading cookbooks, the confection of the year is Richard Olney's The French Menu Cookbook (Simon & Schuster; $10). An American who has lived in France since 1951, Olney is a rare newcomer who has found acceptance with the U.S. cooking establishment on his first publication. Too many people, Olney thinks, confuse grande cuisine with "Grand Palace, or international hotel cooking." The truth is that Escoffier never found fillet of beef in pastry fit for Wellington or anyone else, and virtually nothing-except an occasional intemperate chef-came out of the kitchen in a blaze of brandy...
...restaurant, to be called "As You Like It," will offer "a modest menu"-at rates slightly higher than those of the Bick-and will stay open only until 1 a.m. according to Dorothy Studdard, assistant proprietor...
...great! Now I'll have something to look forward to on next year's menu." - a Harvard freshman upon learning that the House dining halls would be open to women at breakfast...
...waitresses in safari suits, and a plushy retreat opposite the bar-offer a wide-ranging mixture of French and American food. There are hamburgers and hot dogs-and quiche Lorraine and hifsteck tartare as well: Moët et Chandon champagne and Coca-Cola are both on the menu. Empty seats are interdit. "We want Le Drugstore to be a meeting place,'' Caroline Solovei says, "and if there's space at a table, we'll shoehorn another couple-or a single-in. It's terribly easy to strike up a conversation.'' Caroline...