Poor Boys; Margarita; Boy-Meets-Girl

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POOR BOYS (continued)

    This book wasn't on the NYU shelf when I looked a few weeks ago.  From
THE WPA GUIDE TO NEW ORLEANS (1938; 1983 reprint):

Pg. 60:  "That will buy us a couple of good poor boys."
     "A couple of what?"
     "Sandwiches.  They're edible.  Come along."  You turn a corner and go
into a little shop having as a sign a crude picture of a small boy eating a
sandwich nearly as large as himself.  "You like roast beef?"
     "Yes."
     "Two roast beefs."  In a moment appear before you two large sandwiches
made by cutting a twenty-eight-inch loaf of bread in two, then splitting it
lengthwise, piling it with sliced roast beef, lettuce,and tomatoes, and
drowning the whole in gravy.  You are surprised to find them remarkably good,
though a trifle unwieldy.  Then you realize why they call them "poor boys."
They cost a dime, and a half of one makes a meal.

Pg. 299:  At 2004 St. Claude Ave. is the largest of the establishments
selling _Poor Boy Sandwiches_, foot-long, French bread sanwiches (10 cents)
crammed with a choice of cheese, meats, or seafood and garnished with
lettuce, tomatoes, and dressing, which constitute New Orleans' own answer to
the depression.

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MARGARITA (continued)

     From BON APPETIT, August/September 1966, pg. 18, col. 3:

     Today, one of the most famous drinks using tequila is the Margarita.
This came about in 1936 when a Los Angeles bartender named Johnny Durlesser
was asked to duplicate a drink a lady customer had once tasted in Mexico.  He
put together a drink which pleased the lady, whose name was Margaret, and
today his "duplication" is well known as the Margarita cocktail.  Mr.
Duclesser's original recipe (which he still serves at the Tail O' The Cock
Restaurant) goes like this:
1/2 ounce Cointreau
1 ounce lime juice
1 ounce lemon juice
1 1/2 ounces tequila
Mix all ingredients in blender, rim glass with salt and pour.
An equally popular version substitutes Triple Sec for Cointreau--for those
who prefer a slightly drier cocktail.
     In 1949, Mr. Durlesser entered The Margarita in a national competition
of original drinks and it won third place.

     What national competition would this be??
     Why doesn't Al Lucero mention Durlesser's name Lucero's books on the
Margarita?

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CAESAR SALAD (continued)

     "The CAESAR that Conquered the World!" is in BON APPETIT,
August/September 1966, pg. 17.  It's the familiar story of how Caesar Cardini
invented the salad exactly on July 4, 1924.  It doesn't mention that he stole
the idea from his brothers, as stated in GOURMET.

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BOY MEETS GIRL (continued)

    From NEW YORK PRESS, May 24-30, 2000, pg. 37, col. 4, about the Elton
John-Tim RIce musical AIDA:

    Since the pattern of seduction is boy-meets-girl, boy-enslaves-girl,
boy-gets-girl, we are left to ponder the nature of their attraction for each
other.

    Boy enslaves girl?
    Is that the new episode from SEX IN THE CITY?