“Titanic” Dame Made Oxtail Stew!
My favorite paragraph is the NY Times obit of Gloria Stuart — you know, the old dame in “Titanic”: ‘Soon came movies like “The Girl in 419†(1933), in which she played a mysterious woman who witnesses a murder. Her social circle included Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and other New York intellectuals who had settled at the Garden of Allah hotel while writing and acting in movies. [Stuart was also a friend of Christopher Isherwood.] An excellent cook whose oxtail stew with dumplings was praised by M. F. K. Fisher in her book “The Gastronomical Me,†Ms. Stuart liked to cook Sunday dinners for them.’ Oxtail stew? I think I’ll pass.
