Restaurateuse

Jonathan Hazard remembered, ‘Lee takes being a restaurateuse very seriously. Do you know she won’t marry me because she might have to give it up if she did?’

We were sitting in a studio, an odd mix of people who included another now good friend, Myrtle Allen of Ballymaloe House in Ireland. She is a restaurateuse of great distinction, suitably garlanded by Michelin, and she had just opened an eating house in Paris.

“When I was a little teenager, I was workin’” – restaurateuse. Rancher: “Kids don’t realize.” “My kids say, ‘Don’t talk about the dark ages.’ I say to them, ‘You may be seein’ more of ’em!’” Talking, refills author’s coffee.

It's not a spin-off, since none of the characters are the same. (the fact that the actress is the same doesn't make it a spin-off--in Cheers she played a cheery British barmaid and in C.A. she was a crusty American restaurateuse.) However, it is an example of a rip-off sitcom (using the same basic premise that has succeeded elsewhere).

It was on that occasion and many more like it that I got to know a great Morelian cook and restaurateuse, Livier Ruiz, who has become a cherished friend. I have published a few of her recipes before and here is one of hers and two simple ones from the food fair.

<> / Uh, make that Costa Rica. I've had a problem with vowels ever since I read the following in the NY Post: / >RESTAURATEUSE Hayne Jason - who / >describes her Lucky Cheng's as an Epcot / >center for fetishists - hopes Ivana Trump / >has a thick skin. The 4,000 color / >brochures which just came back from the / >printer contain several photos of celebrity / >patrons. But the caption under one / >identifies The Donald's first wife as Ivana / >Tramp.

I enjoyed the review of Empress of India; Scott was the one that turned us on to it. Jeannie is one of the few restaurateuses that is willing to work with my wife's celiac disease; she regards it as a challenge to her artistry.

The Grauniad had an interview last month with no. 66, a San Francisco restaurateur (or rather restaurateuse) with Norwegian and Brazilian citizenship.

A hot dog stand with an adjoining picnic table would qualify as a "restaurant." In the spectrum of dining establishments, a Subway or other fast-food franchise is more of a food factory than a service establishment. The savvy needed to operate one is different from, say, managing La Mer Duquesne, a Dennys, or even a chain of IHOPs. To own/operate a franchise may very well be demanding and entrepreneurial, but to call her a restaurateur (restaurateuse?) is stretching the connotation.

As all hostesses should, Cassie and Kim were putting serious thought into the party planning. At bedtime, with Kim already tucked up and Cassie lingering on the outskirts of her sister’s room in her nightie and a pair of her mother’s old walking socks, they were bandying menus like a pair of rival restaurateuses.