European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 returning the sparkle to a Creole Gem Bojoh Demers United press International it took seven million and an Armeni an born in but count arnouds Creole landmark glistens again in the heart and soul of new Orleans French founded in 1918 by a Frenchman who gave up Medicine to run a Saloon on Bourbon was in its Golden years a favored dining spot for Bon Vitants from around the it in its sad an an embarrassment and a foundering business Strung out Over 11 buildings needing blackened with Cigar smoke and open above to the occasional curious few new Orl anians went near arnouds by the mid leaving the place to tourists fresh off the its far More difficult to bring Back a restaurant with a tarnished name than to Start one from observed Archie the Swiss trained Hotelier who found his entrepreneurial stride taking Over the landmark in i had some idea of the emotion attached to arnouds the Good and the bad but this was casbarian had stumbled on the arnouds legend while climbing the ladder through the Vonesta an ascent he had plotted since his Days at the Ecol hoteliers de la society suisse Des hoteliers and at Cornell after the customary string of he found himself in love with new Orleans and married to one of its from his hotel casbarian watched the decline of he came to appreciate through widening contacts the spiritual significance of the which had played Host to thousands of Debutante engagements and mar and he came to see in the tragedy a Mission for untapped entrepreneurial the seed had begun to grow in my said Why do it for somebody else when i could do it for myself As time went i got More and More seeing How much it meant to he Learned quickly that despite its faded a lauds meant most to the counts aging Ger Maine Cazenave the place was such a necessity to her View of life As an endless Mardi gras Ball that she resisted All efforts to change it in order to save casbarian finally talked her into a Lon term convincing her arnouds was a memory in need of preservation and he was the Man to preserve she was especially impressed that his initials were the same As her beloved Arnaud however difficult the Landing her permission to resurrect the restaurant was Only the Casba Rian shut the doors for three months in Early spending nearly million on off came the affectations that had covered Beauty Over the the paint that had hidden the smoke stains that had curtained Fine up went a massive window of shimmering Cut giving the dining room an almost celestial As capturing the past took priority out grasping the future was the goal behind the the even dangerous Kitchen was torn up and tossed replaced by efficiency at every turn Complete with computer or Dering and special pagers to Call the the front of the House is circa casbarian the Back of the House is the latest on the one of the few Lucky Breaks the new restaurateur got was arnouds extensive collection of Dusty old he was Able to preserve and perfect the finest creations signature dishes like shrimp Arnaud and oysters Bienville while weeding out misadventures like spa Ghetti and he temporarily took on a Kitchen staff Well versed in then set about building a permanent staff of about 100 that could carry out his grand in order to offset More than a decade of bad press and raise instant Cash when Bankers and friends could lend him no casbarian hit upon the idea of Selling tables for the which offered customers in food credit Over three made Quirky headlines around the world and even tied Down seven minutes on abcs today television casbarian is now working his Way through a tangle of private dining bringing out the personality of each and promoting each As a setting for business or arnouds spectacular fish o United press International be of the most popular and spectacular dishes at the resurrected a lauds blends the Best of old and new Cre Ole Pompano in Croute uses the local if Pompano proves unavailable from Louisiana or Flor one can use a wide variety of similar including red halibut and Pompano in Croute mousse 12 ounces of 2 cup whip Ping Tablespoons French is Tea spoon Teaspoon White Pepper sauce 2 French finely chopped cup Chablis 8 Green crushed 4 cups whip Ping Cream Teaspoon Salt 2 egg Yolks 3 sheets thin puff rolled out to measure 9 by12 inches 2 pounds Pompano sliced into 2 inc Long strips 1 egg 1 Tablespoon water to make the Combine in blender Salt and White blend until the mixture achieves a thick place in the refrigerator until ready to stuff into a pastry to prepare the reduce by half in a Saucepan the shallots and cooking 5 to 6 minutes on High add the crushed Green Peppercorns and boil for 25 stirring re move from the heat for 15 add the egg Yolks and stir gently for 30 Lay one Sheet of dough on a floured place the strips of fish fillets Side by spacing them at 2 Inch four strips should fit on one squeeze about 3 Tablespoons of mousse out of the pastry bag onto each cover with another Pompa no cover these sandwiches with the second Sheet of Cut the third Sheet of puff pastry dough in half and repeat the procedure described above for the two remaining with thumbs and Index press the dough to Mold around each individual you might need to dip your fingers in with a Trace and Cut the outline of a fish around each As though the fish Are lying Side by Side in head total Pinch together tops and Bottoms of from the scraps of pastry Cut six strips about to be placed across the fish to visually set off a for the Cut six Combine the egg and the water to make an egg then Brush the pastry fish with this attach the strips and the and trim the strips to the outline of each Brush the egg Wash Over the strips and prick semicircular indentations on the body formation to resemble bake on a floured pan in a preheated 400degree oven for 20 or until the puff pastry is Golden Brown and to reheat the sauce pour about cup of the sauce into each place the baked fish on top of the sauce and serve immedi serves Erma Bombeck wherever mothers gather they engage in their favorite pastime chop Down the Jujj its a Gripe session on what we put with and How Only wonderful people like us could possibly at a gathering the other Carol was saying her son Mark always cleaned his room but he was never on time for anything in his entire Ruth said shed Trade him in a minute for her son who was always on time but who was so Lazy the Only test hed passed All year was his Eye Barb didst think that was so she preferred him to her Dorothy who was an Honor student but was so cheap she gave Ner her own sweater Back for mothers she gave her Boyfriend a watch for mothers it kept going that Way All the Mother who was sick of Chau Feuring a Jock around All the time was envied by the Mother whose son devoted his life to taking her car the Mother who worried about her Daugh ters dating the entire wrestling team in one night con voted the daughter who sat at Home living Vaca piously we would fill out a card for each of the Rotten things about our children that bothered us drinking milk out of the hanging on the phone during leaving dirty clothes in the Middle of the Over sleeping and missing the school soaking All the pans every time it was his turn to do then we would fill out a card for some of the Nice things they did closing the front door occasionally Dur ing offering to drop you off at the dentist in your emptying the mouse trap five years not Cash ing the tooth fairy Check until after the 15th of the All the cards would be put into a deck and five of them dealt to each we would then begin vigor Ous much like a game called i have not seen so much excitement and frenzy in All my Days of my friends who were usually Calm were ill Trade Hurliness for Long another give me a kid who Doest you ill throw in one who hangs up wet the trading was vigorous for the better part of three at the end of we All put our cards Down to tally up who we i got my own kids theres a lesson to be Learned from c los Angeles times Syndicate