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...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...
CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICANS, by Mark Lane, 247 pages, Simon and Schuster...
Just before Thanksgiving, Simon and Schuster released a book which no one will want to read while eating-Mark Lane's Conversations with Americans consists of 32 tape-recorded interviews with Vietnam veterans that dwell on acts of brutality and the psychology of the armed forces which primes our soldiers for them. Reading this book is like taking a ride in a spin-dry Laundromat filled with blood. Approximately one-fourth of the way into the book, there remains nothing for the most naive reader to discover, and the same events keep repeating themselves in wave after inexorable wave...
...multiple decorations and have returned to the United States. For some of these men, their testimony takes the form of a confessional, and a few risk prosecution by the Army because they are still in the reserves. Horrified by the manuscript submitted to them, the editors at Simon and Schuster required Lane to provide documentary evidence for the statements before they would handle Conversations with Americans...
CRIME IN AMERICA by Ramsey Clark. 346 pages. Simon & Schuster...