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...self-proclaimed king of jelly bean art, a title no one is likely to contest. In past political times, the "jelly bean impressionism" of Peter Rocha, 43, might well have received the critical reception accorded oils of bullfighters on black velvet or children with big watery eyes. But with a prime consumer of jelly beans in the White House, Rocha hopes that his art will catch the public's fancy. Rocha attests to using Jelly Bellys, the President's favorite, because "they are the only brand with a full color spectrum." And he has at last found...
...Virtually every city of any size has specialty stores selling freshly made pasta, as well as hard durum wheat flour for knead-it-yourselfers, and imported cheeses, sauces, oils, olives and herbs to anoint each dish. A sophisticated caterer can offer whole pasta dinners, starting with pisarei e fasoi (bean soup with gnocchi and prosciutto) through bigoli all'anitra (Venetian wheat pasta with poached duck) and baked spaghetti pie with cinnamon-flavored cream and eggs for dessert. Pasta cookbooks are churned out with dizzying regularity. Mostly written by Italians, they are generally excellent; for instance, Sicilian-descended Carlo Middione...
...never wanted this," Allie Fox says of the culture of obsolescence and indulgence. "I'm sick of everyone pretending to be Dan Deaves in his L.L. Bean Moccasins, and his Dubbelwares, and his Japanese Bucksaw--all these fake frontiersman with their chuckwagons full of Twinkies and Wonderbread and aerosol cheesespread. Get out the Duraflame log and the plastic cracker barrel, Dan, and let's talk of self-sufficiency...
...here in Boston, M.L. Carr, is playing every game as an invaluable sixth man for the World Champion Boston Celtics, and he has earned the reputation in Bean-town that he enjoyed in Detroit. His energy and good humor on and off the court have prompted the Boston press to dub him the Celtic's spark plug...
...Bean boots are ever-present at courtside. La Cost shirts sporting their alligators, have arrived in droves. And bright sweaters seem to round out the dress code...