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...flock of photographers swirled around, strobes flashing; Raisa Gorbachev perched anxiously forward at the edge of her seat. When the press was at last safely outside, the women engaged in a drawing-room version of their husbands' fireside summit discussions, the hostess serving a flavored beverage, Celestial Seasonings Almond Sunset tea ($1.69 for 24 bags), which she had carried along from the U.S. Raisa Gorbachev gamely claimed she enjoyed the tea. Later White House aides said that Nancy had found Raisa somewhat pedantic and inflexible...
...throne room of Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox Patriarch in the Old City's Christian Quarter is at the heart of a maze of tunnels, sandstone stairways, narrow passages and courtyards bursting with almond blossom. Each night at 10 p.m., in a practice that dates back centuries, the priests of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher lock themselves into their ancient warren, shutting out the iniquitous world beyond their walls. Lately, though, they've concluded the biggest threat lies within - Patriarch Eirinaios I, who's at the center of a labyrinthine religious and legal scandal involving the alleged lease of Church...
...Lukacs Baths, both on the Buda side of town. If you enjoy distance running, the Danube's long, flat stretches offer rich opportunities. Among the best-known routes is that of the Linz Marathon, which kicks off every April in the Austrian town famous for its torte - an almond pastry with a lattice top over jam. Over 10,000 competitors took part in last month's race, and those planning to enter in 2006 should start training now. Those not contemplating anything quite as strenuous should get down to the riverside anyway. The fresh air and ever-changing riverscapes will...
...start with an appetizer of litchi, celery, apple and eucalyptus soup; proceed to a "salad" of spicy milk-pudding cubes, apple sticks, rocket and caramel; tuck into an entr?e of cereal cake with Greek yogurt and crushed apples with laurel herbs; and cap it off with a dessert of almond cake with coffee and leche merengada (milk and meringue sauce). And for an after-dinner treat, there's chocolate ice cream, black sesame crystal and yogurt, combined with smoky-flavored tea ice cream. Well worth a few fillings. tel: (34-93) 268 1630; www.espaisucre.com...
With astonishing speed and obsessiveness, Blumenthal created a circle of foodie physicists and chemists and applied their wisdom to the kitchen. Barham exposed him to lab-equipment catalogs. Tom Coultate, a retired food biochemist from South Bank University, explained advanced gelling agents (used in the restaurant's tea, almond and quail jellies). Anthony Blake, a vice president of Firmenich, a Swiss fragrance and flavor company, was most influential. "The first time I went to Geneva," says Blumenthal, "Tony showed me thousands of flavor molecules and extracts in little jars. I was in heaven...