Beth Coffelt's Rice Pilaf

A Bay Area art critic, Beth Coffelt is also a grimly ferocious chess player. Her lair is Sausalito's famed No Name Bar, a hangout for artists, writers and serious chess buffs. Since she has been known to humiliate some insufferably smug male players after half a dozen moves, Ms. Coffelt has become one of the minor deities of local Women's Lib. It is no longer proper to call her a "master chef," while Mistress Cook sounds like Shakespearean comedy. Whatever-Beth Coffelt's rice pilaf steamed