Word: micheline
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvey Olson, a Chicago travel agent who lumps Europe into something called Aboard and Abroad (the latest edition of which was published in 1964), is more pretentious than Clark about his restaurants but hardly sounder. Olson's favorite restaurant "in all the world" rates only- in Michelin, and third on his Paris list is a copy of Chicago's Gaslight Club. Olson is both a dictator and a square (his idea of Paris fun is going to the Folies-Bergère). As far as he is concerned, the only possible way for any American to enjoy Europe...
...basic meat-and-potatoes information, the tourist must look elsewhere. If he is in range, the best guides to most of his needs are produced by the French tire factory, Michelin & Cie. The Michelin Guides cover most of Western Europe in four languages and in two series. Michelin Green is an excellent illustrated sightseeing guide, heavy on history. Michelin Red, whose annual ratings can make or break any leading restaurant in France, is the undisputed arbiter of the world's finest cuisine. Unfortunately, Michelin covers neither entertainment npr shopping, and is no help at all to the tourist wondering...
...overplay the nursemaid bit. But the heart of Fielding's guidebook is his personal advice on where to eat, sleep, drink and be merry. It is current (this year's book contains 125,000 lines of revisions), caustic, and in reliable taste. Maxim's (ranked by Michelin as one of France's twelve*** restaurants) has been off Fielding's list since the death of Maitre d'hótel Albert Blaser in 1959, and he attacks Chez Denis (*) for serving "the costliest meal in Paris today." As for the London Hilton...
Pirelli considers business looks so good that he has to "stamp down" his optimism. "In cable production, our group leads the world." Among Europe's tire and rubber goods producers, Pirelli is "about equal with Michelin." Worldwide, Pirelli acknowledged, his group is far behind such giants as Goodyear and Firestone, but that didn't seem to bother him. He does not intend to in vade their home markets in the U.S.; and therefore, "in the main, it will be a battle between our subsidiaries and their subsidiaries in specific markets, and in many cases our branches will...
...most of the others are owned or staffed by his proteges. When he died last week of a heart attack at 62, his Le Pavilion was still the best of them all, the undisputed exemplar of haute cuisine in the U.S. and, by the judgment of the incorruptible Guide Michelin's Pierre Lamalle, the equal of the five best restaurants of Paris-which is to say, of the world...