50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission Into The Heart Of Nazi Germany - Plot & Excerpts
Instead, by going to Germany he would only confirm the impossibility and return a failure.—JACOB BILLIKOPFPHILADELPHIA–VIENNAAPRIL 1939The dinner service began with a sterling silver dish filled with intensely flavored caviar de Beluga. It was followed by a small bowl of spicy gombo de volaille Creole, a French version of traditional gumbo Creole. Gil was a man who enjoyed gourmet dining, and the sumptuous surroundings of the Grand Salon—the first-class dining room aboard the RMS Queen Mary—provided the ideal atmosphere for the classic French cuisine that he and Bob Schless tucked into on their third night at sea.After the gumbo had been cleared away by the liveried waiters who moved effortlessly from table to table, out came the two main courses for that evening’s dinner: delice de sole Veronique and poussin en cocotte paysanne—delicate fillets of sole sautéed with green grapes and heavy cream and a hearty chicken casserole prepared with bacon, white pearl onions, and red wine.
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