European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Guess who s Pierre Franey chef and Cookbook author prepared dinners in stranger Kitchen using ingredient on hand. Page 14 by Irish Hall new York times he proposition was intriguing. Put a French chel smack in the Middle of a typically minuscule now Yolk Kitchen. Deprive him of his Wolf stove and Copper pots fresh herbs ready for snipping and Lish plucked wide eyed from Long Island sound. Could he produce what would he produce there was Only one Way to orce Thuc Che and Cookbook writer Pierre Franey into a confrontation with indigenous Kitchen ingredients Ike stale bread and Frozen dinners. Tha plan to accost strangers in supermarkets As they shopped. To swoop without warning giving them no Chance to cheat and buy fancy things like lettuce. They would have to Lake him Home right then and there and reveal their Irue cupboards wish a reporter tagging along. Certain Delra Clors of Urban life insisted thai Only lunatics would Lake strangers into their kitchens. We Houghl otherwise and were proved right. Only in inc new York Borough of Queens did our first inquiries meet Wilh snarling rejections. The first night we headed Lor a Good Emporium on the upper Hast Side of Manhattan. Our target a Nice Yuppie. Within moments we spied him Tail looking like a London banker lounging by the Delicatessen counter. The ingredients in his Basket a slice of Watermelon a Small bag of Corn chips and a few carrots marked him As a single Man. Excuse  i said hashing a Book jacket photograph of the chel but would you be willing to take us Home and let Pierre Franey Cook your dinner our Yuppie a venture capitalist named Floyd Evenson had no idea who Pierre Franey was. To reads the Watt Street journal and tie Wall Street journal does not have recipes. He said yes immediately. While Evenson cheerfully picked lint from his Rug Franny inspected the refrigerator. In terms of raw materials this turned out to be the week s greatest Challenge. Franey who apprenticed As a Cook in France in 1934, would Maet and use for the first Lime garlic powder. On subsequent nights we searched for prey with an Eye toward a demographic mix. To Brooklyn we found a Young family in Queens a widow who had such admiration for Franey that she threatened to have a heart attack in the supermarket. Once our proposition was accepted the rules were simple Franey would have to Cook Wilh whatever was at hand armed Only with his own measuring spoons a measuring cup and one Sharp knife. The knife proved unnecessary Al Evenson s apartment which was relatively Well equipped food was another Story. The refrigerator contained celery and Parl of a Honeydew Melon but no other produce unless you consider Ketchup a vegetable Evenson who said he shops every Day for what he will eat thai night had planned a dinner of raw carrots Apple juice and Corn chips followed by pasta in a butter Oil Anco Mustard sauce there s lots of things Lor you to play Wilh he said. Well not exactly. The cupboard yielded Tomato paste. Less inspiring was an ancient head of garlic. As Franey Pul ii this gallic to a Little he turned the cloves to dust Wilh a squeeze Back to the cupboards he won this time finding garlic powder la s against Rny religion he said but we All agreed the situation was desperate. Evenson off Rod him some sliced Turkey. It s Salt free he said a nod of acceptance from the chef who rummaged some rim Vou Dan l have onions to gone Evenson said. Sony tit what about a vegetable sen i never scrape my vegetable 3ul Franey does. So using a scraping the carrots. After an i had Spaghetti carrots and fruit Evenson who offered wine 09 a chips As an appetizer pronoun wonderful and added thee and i have in common is that he he has got and puts it  thus inspired we headed i Section of Brooklyn. Again we prey a Young woman with � Chi cart which was filled with Rota Lurkey. Milk Orange juice Egga and potato chips the Slawta family diet. The woman Georgia Andre i alacrity to our proposal that he heard of our famous chef Naeemi mrs. Andre an architect who said she nearly always Cooks to husband Joel also an architect work late. I try to make things  she said. Tonight weird Lei Lover Chicken with vegetable the Andres apartment Oren cupboards but Little produce. I periods where i buy ire Sheget Andrzj said apologetically but buy the precut Frozen vegetal quickly confiscated some Levtov what about cheese if you flux looks funny mrs. Andre Bald thrown  to his Delight there was on and a Good Curry powder. Thai is Andre s 4-year-Oid son Lai what i want  a Seld.  Joel Andre arrived Home and visitors Wilh a casual hello Beta change. By the time he returns registered the fact thai strange Kitchen. "o.k.," he asked we people Andre a native of Haiti ende French with Franey who Contin producing cloves Nutmeg and have to Lind something else f he searched through the Rotrige no Spaghetti sauce no. Vine perfect underpinning Lor a sauce Ai 7 15. The Andres sat Down ate. Mrs andr6 pronounced Tow leftover Chicken. Laurent asked two nights in kitchens Wildfi vegetables had led our intrepid greenery. Moving eastward will we suffered in Queens we end like produce peeping Toms woman carefully inspected veg swooped. Our target France Only that she be allowed to Anvil and Sci daughter in Law Joan f had nol heard of Franey but re anything was possible in a Ami made it onto the television Gam feud mrs Riordan had a blender. Skillets of every size and a Retric Consul a As a Loesl. Before Shi diet Riordan said it was eve Lom aloes. Potatoes and Sordini onions Lemons and thyme. Tha Bounty w8� inspiration i Franey declared will be some and it was a Platter of Zuccar the stars and stripes