Word: asparagus
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...cuisine and natural food." Gingerbread-style Chez Panisse, located in Berkeley, features winter-squash tortellini in a black-truffle sauce as part of its $55 prix-fixe dinner. As an appetizer, Chicago's Printer's Row offers a choice of Brazilian mussel chowder ($4.50) or fresh white and green asparagus steamed with Sauterne and oranges...
...customers, however, complain about curdled sauces or curling asparagus tips. "It's always delivered just right," says Manhattan investment banker Harry Ozawa. He treats himself to home-delivered delicacies two or three times a week. Why? Because, explains Ozawa, it's so much nicer than eating pizza every night. At $125 or so a pop, it should...
...from the branch of the pomegranate tree and the testes of animals were considered hot stuff. So were certain foods. "If envious age relax the nuptial knot," advised the poet Martial, "thy food be scallions, and thy feast shallot." Onions were a favorite, as were garlic, pepper, savory, cabbage, asparagus, eggs, pineapples, snails ("but without sauce," cautioned the fastidious Petronius) and just about any creature dredged from Aphrodite's watery birthplace...
...claims. "He seems formed in the Manet mold," writes one contributor, Ian Dunlop, adducing by way of proof that Sultan, like the great Edouard, is ambitious, paints images from "modern life," looks at old master paintings, etc. Sultan does have a crush on Manet; a small still life with asparagus pays homage to Manet's famous single asparagus stalk, and a little detail of masts and sails in Manet's Moonlight over Boulogne Harbor, 1869, is blown up to an 8-ft. square in Sultan's Harbor July 6, 1984. But there is, to put it mildly...
...result was notice-me behavior -- eating asparagus with her fingers, while wearing gloves, at a White House dinner -- and a hardness to anyone who seemed less tough than she. Her shy, awkward daughter Paulina, for example, got little compassion. Alice let it be known that Paulina was the issue of her affair with Senator William Borah, not of her marriage to Speaker of the House Nick Longworth. It is not this home truth that evokes sympathy for Longworth, himself a philanderer and a drunk (as well as a superb amateur violinist), but the fact that he deeply loved the little...