Word: arnolds
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...acquiring culinary gadgetry was easy compared with creating it, and Arnold quickly proved himself a gifted inventor. There was his immersion blender with an 18-volt battery and a trigger borrowed from a DeWalt high-speed drill, for starters. He began writing about equipment and technology for Food Arts magazine, and one night, while eating at the restaurant wd~50, Arnold chatted up chef Wylie Dufresne, a man so gadget-happy, he has deep-fried mayonnaise. Dufresne, like most people, came away from his first meeting with Arnold just a little dizzy. "He's probably a little ADD," says Dufresne...
...just hardware that fascinates Arnold but also the software--which is to say, the food and, especially, the drink. Cocktails have become his latest obsession. He likes them carbonated with small, even bubbles, which means distilling or spinning out all the little pulpy bits from the juice so the bubbles don't stick to them, which means losing a lot of the acids that give juice its taste, which means figuring out a blend of powdered acids to add back in. That's a lot of effort to solve a problem that didn't exist before Arnold decided that...
Despite all his equipment and powders, Arnold isn't interested in creating crazy new flavors. One of his favorite mixes is bourbon and apple, which sounds straightforward enough until he tells you how he distills the Maker's Mark, removing the oaky bitterness so it won't overpower the juice, which, by the way, he presses from an obscure line of British apples developed in the 18th century...
...every good idea, there's a failure. The horseradish juice still sucked. The test tubes alongside it, however, contained fennel juice. And the fennel-lemon-gin drink he made with it was the best cocktail I've ever had. "That is sexy!" Arnold yelled, smiling gap-toothedly at the test tube of clear liquid. "That's some sexy fennel juice...
...industry has reacted. Chase will join Citibank, which has ceased raising rates for customers on the basis of negative information in their credit reports. "There has never been such a spotlight on the industry," says Curtis Arnold, founder of CardRatings.com, which offers card tips. "It's historic...