OT - Robert Carrier : an interesting snippet...
Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]>
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An interesting snippet from the obituary of Robert CARRIER, the restaurateur and 'celebrity' chef...: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 28/06/2006 OBITUARY : Robert Carrier ------------------------- Robert Carrier, the restaurateur, food writer and bon vivant who died yesterday aged 82, introduced luxurious Continental cooking to a nation in which ingredients such as garlic and spaghetti were regarded as foreign and treated with deep suspicion.... ....He arrived in England in 1943 as an American serviceman with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. After D-Day he moved to Paris, where he worked as a cryptographer in General de Gaulle's headquarters, then as editor of a magazine called Spectacle, set up to support de Gaulle's RTF party in its failed bid for post-war power.../snip/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=VTNDCE3OUK4A3QFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/06/28/db2801.xml