Word: venison
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...anything is really original. Every 'invention' in the nouvelle cuisine can be found in some form in old cookbooks. And I know one thing. No matter what they say about wanting light food and liking new dishes, guests love the old tastes. When I make a blanquette, or marinated venison or any kind of stew, guests grab my hand in the dining room and practically get tears in their eyes. 'That was real food,' they...
...course, there is pathos in Stubbs' hunting scenes. His portrait of the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper about to cut a doe's throat in a darkening wood is a gravely haunting mixture of the archaic and the matter-of-fact. Venison, to be eaten, must be killed, but the thickening shadows seem to enfold a more sacrificial rite than the mere stocking of a larder. This, like all Stubbs' paintings, must also be seen as a manifesto of the supreme ideology of late 18th century England: the celebration and defense of property. If the wrong...
...person stories alternately, and the hastening tumble of years can be read in the chapter headings: "War Letters: Mitch, 1942-45," "Anniversary Song: Jean, 1948," "War Letters: Billy, 1970." "All those winters the family stayed put, just ate food they'd dried or put up in pantries, and venison the old man shot. They kept one path shoveled through the snow to the barn, and the walls of the path were as high as a man's shoulders. I know all this because I heard about it, growing up," says Mitch of his early childhood...
...sons. He was squirishly indifferent to many of the conventional social graces; his wife even more so. He served martinis mixed with Argentine vermouth. They were, one visitor recalls, "about the color of spar varnish." The President liked wild game and carved it expertly, so admirers regularly sent him venison and antelope and partridges, but Eleanor squeamishly banished such things from the White House table. Her own specialty was to cook and serve Sunday-night scrambled eggs, which one survivor recalls as "undeniably discouraging...
...story begins with Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister. Englishmen had had country houses before Walpole, of course, but it was he, in the 1720s and '30s. who first used one to bring men together to mix fun and politics. "Up to the chin in beef, venison, geese, turkeys, etc.," wrote one of the guests at Walpole's stag affairs, "and generally over the chin in claret, strong beer and punch." As roads and transportation improved, being a guest became more convenient. Women joined the fun, and the weekend house party began its long and bleary-eyed...