Word: stewing
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...these days. Holt, Rinehart & Winston has put out The Madison Avenue Cookbook "for people who can't cook and don't want other people to know it." It advises readers to boast that they can "cook the pans off practically everybody" and contains recipes for "Status Stew" and "Stuffed Softsell Crab." Also in bookshops is something called Why Cook: 218 Recipes by One Who Can't, and another called The I Hate to Cook Book, with such slothful recipes as "Chilly Night Chili," "Simpleburgers," and "Beetniks." High Altitude. In the search for negotiable gimmicks, writers are turning...
...always found it rather distressing to see the entrails of the chicken floating around in the stew in such an obviously recognizable state, and to be offered the unlaid eggs as the greatest delicacy...
...relations whenever there is no state banquet. Like the lunches, dinners are simple and quick. De Gaulle is fond of soup, and huffily remarks that the Elysée blends are inferior to those prepared by his Colombey cook, Philoméne. He also dotes on a special beef stew that the family calls "stewed Salan's head.'' Dinner over, De Gaulle may watch a private screening of a movie (preferably a comedy) or sit with Yvonne before the television set, like any bourgeois couple, until his 11 o'clock bedtime. There is a certain displeasure...
...along with him. In that sense, a story doing the Connecticut rounds is appropriate. Alsop, pulling a switch on Seely-Brown's potholder campaign, is passing out Band-Aids with his name imprinted on them; other candidates are passing out G.O.P. cookbooks. An elderly lady brewed a Republican stew, took it off the stove with a Seely-Brown potholder and badly burned herself. She put an Alsop Band-Aid on the wound. Then she called Abe Ribicoff to ask about medicare...
...Outside Connecticut, his name is more famed than Dempsey's; he is, after all, the brother of Pundits Joseph and Stewart Alsop. John makes the least of this. During one recent campaign trek through a supermarket, a lady gushed to him about how much she had enjoyed reading Stew's Saturday Evening Post piece-"My Brother Runs for Governor." Replied John dryly: "Wasn't it nice of him to write...