All You Can Eat; Swap Party; Chicken Aloha; Pollo alla Valdostana

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ALL YOU CAN EAT

   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 4 February 1961, pg. 9, col. 5:

   _"All You Can Eat"_
   One novelty idea that has paid off was started ten years (Col. 6--ed.) ago by Joe Brody, owner of the Albert's French Restaurant on E. 11th St.  "All you can eat" was offered on a sirloin steak dinner--the price of the dinner $2.55 from salad through dessert.  Now a nationwide restaurant chain is being launched on the "All You Can Eat" policy.

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SWAP PARTY

   From "This Week" magazine in the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 27 November 1960, sp. 23, col. 1:

_Cookie swaps are sweeping the country_
By Clementine Paddleford
SIERRA MADRE, CALIF.
   Put salt on the tail of a new idea; plan a Christmas cookie swap.  A round of applause to the woman who gave the first "swap party."  It provides a glamorous array of cookies for gifting, plus a hatful of leisure hours to enjoy in the last mad holiday rush.  This year club groups, neighbors, or again, just a few friends are trading cookies and recipes and gift-pack ideas.
   Mrs. Robert Blanch of Minneapolis has held a cookie trade party for her bridge club three years in a row.  "The November meeting," she writes, "is given to the planning.  Swap day is held late in December.  Each member bakes one kind of cookie, one dozen for each of the eight members." (...)

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CHICKEN ALOHA

   Chicken Aloha (or, Aloha Chicken) is not in DARE and not in John Mariani's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK.  It's also not in the OED.
   I probably have earlier, but from the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 3 February 1961, pg. 14, col. 5:

   The bridal dish of Hawaii, Chicken Aloha, is boneless breast of broiled chicken with piquant sauce garnished with fresh coconut, shaved almonds and chunk pineapple.

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POLLO ALL VALDOSTANA

   Another dish that's not recorded.
   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, "Dining Around New York" by Clementine Paddleford (Leonardo Da Vinci Restaurant at 60 W. 56th St.), 28 January 1961, pg. 9, col. 5:

   The most lauded dish, we learned, is the supreme di pollo Valdostana described on the menu as "boneless chicken fabulous."  Chicken breast is boned then stuffed with prosciutto and Swiss cheese, breaded, then sauteed with white wine and mushrroms--on the dinner $3.95.

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COTTAGE-FRIED POTATOES

   Mariani has:

_cottage-fried potatoes._  Also, "cottage fries" and "country fries."  Potatoes that are sliced into thin disks and deep-fried.  The term dates in print to 1965 and is predominantly used in the North.

   A recipe for "Cottage Fried Cheese Potatoes" is given in the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 13 June 1960, pg. 17, col. 3.