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...tomatoes, anchovies, olives, capers and dried red chilis, and sets plates of rigatoni cloaked in the sauce onto a black-marble counter. David Overton, Cheesecake's founder, CEO and ultimate tasting authority, picks up one of the half a dozen forks arrayed for this tasting session and takes a bite. He is wondering about the anchovies. "Karl wanted to put them in," he says. "But some people are allergic to fish." And Overton doesn't want to scare off the anchovy averse who don't realize the fish melt into the tomatoes as they cook, leaving behind a pungent bite...
...breakfast and a Caesar salad with chicken for lunch, followed by several small sweets from a cake shop. At dinner, she ordered three more salads--although, to be fair, one was served with a tuna fillet and another was shared with the table. And she did scoop up every bite of her dessert, an espresso granita with whipped cream. Still, De Laurentiis turned down nearly all the many alimentary offerings routinely presented to famous chefs by fans and job seekers. Except for two bites of chocolate someone made for her, De Laurentiis ate nothing from the many gift platters...
...corporate agribusiness over family farms. Think of the loss of nutrients during a weeklong journey from soil to supermarket. But to Barbara Fisher, an Athens cooking teacher, there's a more primal motive for choosing a homegrown variety over the "beautiful, flavorless, plastic" kind shipped from California: "When people bite into ripe strawberries from a local farmer and the sweet juice bursts into their mouths, their eyes roll back into their heads, and they moan...
...Melvoin puts it: “If we have some significant issues to raise with an academic department, how does the Board follow up? Does—and should—an Overseer committee have any bite...
Much of Bush’s cuts have been made under the umbrella of broader education reforms in which “accountability” has been the all-encompassing buzzword. But no amount of rhetoric can compensate for empty proposals which lack the bite of substantive programs. The U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education suggested, among other initiatives, instituting a system of standardized testing across the nation’s colleges and universities and creating a national database that recorded educational data for all U.S. college students. Ultimately, however, Bush?...