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...Washington-based Sugar Association, which represents refiners and processors of sugar beet and cane, spent $235,000 last week to take out anti-Coke newspaper advertisements in 13 major cities. The ads charged that Coca-Cola Classic is not the "real thing" because it is sweetened with corn syrup, while the drink's original formula called for sugar, which is slightly more expensive. Of course, the Sugar Association has a keen financial interest in the sweetener question because its members do not make the corn syrup that is now used in most soft drinks. The decision by beverage companies...
...accusing the Sugar Association of misleading the public. The company acknowledged using corn syrup for the past five years. Coca-Cola pointed out, however, that the fructose in corn syrup, as every high school science student should know, is as much a sugar as sucrose, the technical name for beet or cane sugar. "The fact of the matter," said a Coca-Cola spokesman, "is that sugar is sugar is sugar." Even so, in May the company changed Coke's label to read "high fructose corn syrup and/or sucrose." Coca-Cola maintains that there is no difference in the quality...
...going crazy in the kitchen to keep up with greens that will be interesting and new and delightful to the eye," says Anne Rosenzweig, the chef and partner at the small and sophisticated Arcadia, one of the best new wave restaurants in Manhattan. "I'm doing roast quail on beet greens," she says proudly. Rosenzweig reports that out-of-town visitors compare dishes they have had in Par is to those she created, adding, "They do tours of New York restaurants or the California wine country...
...seasonal mural just a year ago, and it soon had a two- to four-week waiting list for peak-hour reservations. She has a special talent for lamb and duck dishes. Other outstanding offerings include corn cakes with caviar and crème fraîche, chimney-smoked lobster, quail with beet sauce, warm apple timbale with caramel sauce and chocolate bread pudding...
...April 13, Hyperion will release Young and Hungry, Lieberman's first cookbook in a two-book deal. It's an intro to entertaining for twentysomethings, organized by eating occasion, with chapters like "Lazy Mornings" (chive pancakes, mango-ginger lassis) and "Cooking for a Crowd" (beet salad with goat cheese, potato-chip-crusted salmon). And on April 16, he will hit the culinary jackpot when his new cooking show, Good Deal, premieres in the daytime lineup of the Food Network (1:30 p.m. E.T.), making him, at 25, the channel's youngest host ever...