[From Homepage] Home Cookin' Part 3: Robert Smyth

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Editor's Note: This article is the third in a series by Alan Lake, all about home cooks, their stories and recipes. Read part one here for a description of what Home Cookin' is all about.

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ROBERT'S RECIPE:

Roast Goose with Chestnut-Sausage Stuffing, Roasted Potatoes, and Gravy


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Once upon a time in a restaurant in Palm Beach, a manager came back to the kitchen, saying to me, “You’ve got to meet this guy out there. What an ass, getting all bent out of shape over nothing. He reminds me of you.”

Our high-rolling two-top, consisting of a man and his wife, had ordered some vintage port (a Fonseca ’77) after their meal. In walking it over to pour it tableside, my manager friend inadvertently shook the bottle, which disturbed the sediment, thus serving them glasses filled with it. So the man busted her on it, and rightfully so. She came and got me to smooth things over, and he and I have been friends ever since. At the time, none of us knew that this is a guy that knows his sh*t - that’s lived high and low, through good and bad, all over the world.

Hi,

While reading your friend's history, I kept thinking of this movie: Hope and Glory.

This New York Times critics review begins with one of my favorite scenes in this movie:


Youtube has the entire film available to watch:



England was rationing food well into the mid-1950's. Many of Elizabeth David's books were issued during this period of rationing. They were practically fairy tales to contemporary readers with so many of the ingredients simply unavailable.

Regards,

this was really beautiful