In Brillat-Savarin's day, a popular Paris restaurant called Les Frères Provencaux offered 12 soups, 24 hors d'oeuvres, 110 entrees, 24 fish dishes, 12 pastries, 15 types of roast, 50 side dishes and 50 desserts.
There would always be eight courses, two entrees, hot and cold, a trou Normand (ie a "Norman hole", or glass of calvados), a fish dish, a white meat dish, a dark meat dish, cheese and a dessert.
(Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Entrees $24-$24-$38
He has a basic repertory of roughly 600 appetizers and entrees.
Tells the seafood entrees available, in addition to corn-on-the-cob, hamburgers hot dogs, beer, soft drinks, etc. Picnic tables are available outdoors, overlooking the Long Island Sound.
Old curmudgeon told writer that he had been an original member of the "21" Club, originally a speakeasy called Puncehon Grotto, on W. 49th St. Rena Pierami, a microbiologist with K.F.C. told the curmudgeon that her job was looking for bacteria in K.F.C. entrees.
Excerpt from a story to be printed in a future issue, tells of a visit by President Richard Nixon to the narrator's Cape Cod town during the Watergate Scandal... Narrator's father has owned a series of French restaurants...I listened to the hard-bitten philosophy he offered as he cooked, and I counted the entrees he sold by the plates that came in.
(Open Mondays through Saturdays for dinner and Sundays for brunch and dinner. Entrees $18-$18-$28
The sauces take hours to complete, as do the complementary entrees; cooking everything in one evening, which we tried once, resulted in the kind of panic and consequent shock one ascribes to victims of minor natural disasters.
They tell you their Aunt Bertha's coming to town in three weeks and they'd like a Middle-Eastern restaurant within a four-square-block area, with entrees between $12 and $17.
(Open daily for dinner. Entrees $14-$14-$26
