Word: poulet
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Larousse Encyclopedia of Music. Edited by Geoffrey Hindley. 576 pages. World. $19.95. A potpourri of minstrels and melody that manages to make the songs of old Provence seem as delectable as poulet a la proven∧ale. So too with musical greats from Palestrina and Purcell to Wagner and Webern, in a handsome treatise that is informed and comfortably free of jargon. This is primarily history, not a quick alphabetical reference aid (readers wanting that should try the Oxford Companion to Music). The knowing may regret the cursory treatment of American music and wonder, say, why Stravinsky and Berlioz...
...LAST bits of the poulet, pain, and pommes de terre had been savored. The candles were now half their True-shelf height. Won't you excuse us for just a moment, we asked, ("Although you can beat the meringue an hour before serving, and re-beat it at the minute, the beating takes but a few minutes in an efficient mixer and your guests should not mind a short wait.") With the kitchen door safely closed behind us, we dropped our unflappable-host-and-hostess grins and became panting haute cuisine speed freaks. Getting the ice cream...