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- <text id=90TT3446>
- <title>
- Dec. 24, 1990: Business Notes:Airlines
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- AIRLINES
- Heavenly Hash
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- <body>
- <p> Most airline food is nothing to write home about. But Alaska
- Airlines is so confident that its cuisine soars above the
- competition's that the carrier is giving passengers a chance
- to convey their compliments to the chef face to face. Alaska's
- executive chef Wolfgang Erbe, in his pleated toque, has been
- strolling the aisles twice a month soliciting passengers'
- reactions to his food. Commuting between the 17 West Coast
- airport kitchens where Alaska's meals are prepared, Erbe says,
- "We want to promote the image of the airline as a moving dining
- room." With meals like poached salmon and beef stroganoff--in coach class, no less--Alaska Airlines spends $7.80 a
- customer on food, about $3 more than the average for U.S.
- carriers. This has allowed Erbe, who trained in the kitchens
- of Hamburg's Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten (Four Seasons), to add
- venison, pheasant and Cajun catfish as first-class entrees.
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- </body>
- </article>
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