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...tranquil waters of the d'Entrecasteaux Channel - named by early French explorers, who had friendly contact with local Aborigines before the British arrived and devastated the indigenous culture. While you lap up the historical commentary, you'll spot seals, dolphins and white-breasted sea eagles. Local produce is served bento-box-style onboard, or you can toddle ashore, past lobster fishermen unloading their catch, to dine at Peppermint Bay, adjacent the quaint hamlet of Woodbridge. Local treats include Bruny Island oysters, ocean trout, Tasmanian truffles, organic ice cream and fine Tasmanian wine...
...product finding a niche in the U.S. is a line of insulated bento boxes with stackable lunch compartments, called Mr. Bento, that Zojirushi sells as an alternative to standard American lunch boxes. The bento boxes are designed to make it easy to take both hot and cold foods to work without having to rely on a microwave. The company also sells some 90,000 electric air pots to U.S. consumers each year. Sales of the air pots - which heat water at blazing speeds - have jumped 50% over the past three years as Zojirushi has expanded partnerships with gourmet retailers...
...March 28, 2008, would star the chef Thierry Marx, famous for his ventures into molecular gastronomy with the chemist Jerome Bibbett; it would also feature the Harvard team’s inhalable chocolate. The exposition, held in that dark, smoky gallery, treated the trendy French crowd to three-tiered bento boxes starring a suckling pear dipped in chocolate with a surprise mound of vanilla caviar nestled inside. A colloidal masterpiece. Sharing the stage was the Le Whif exhibition, which had paired with Nespresso, Nestle’s coffee line. The concept was to drink the coffee and take a puff...
...lurid fiction is anchored in ostensibly mundane domestic affairs - far cries from the hard-boiled yakuza netherworld of conventional Japanese crime fiction, where women mostly inhabit peripheral positions as prostitutes or femmes fatales. Like Natsuo Kirino, whose best-selling 1997 novel Out chronicles a band of disaffected middle-aged bento-box factory workers who moonlight as murderesses, Nonami places women at the center of her work. As the author of some 50 books, she is more prolific than Kirino, although only one previous work has been translated into English. That's The Hunter, a fetching police procedural that follows Detective...
...Bento church has taken its own precautions, hiring seven security guards to patrol the church and grounds, as well as fitting 15 CCTV cameras in and around the premises. These steps have made the monks who wander about in flowing dark brown robes feel safer, and Coutinho is confident it also offers protection to the priceless pieces that hang from every wall and ceiling of the spectacular 300-year-old building...