Word: blanding
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...Across the water in Kowloon, buzz is also starting to gravitate around Giampaolo Maffini, chef at the Harbour Grill, tel: (852) 2996 8433?a deceptively bland name for an astonishing restaurant in the mid-range Harbour Plaza Hotel in Hung Hom. Hong Kong's chattering classes might never summon up the will to go to this nondescript district of tower blocks and train lines?more fool them, for Maffini's talent is a rare one. His soups (oyster with Pernod; cauliflower with caviar) are masterful and original; the racks of lamb are so good they defy description; and his duck...
Unless you've been seriously out of the loop, you'll know that "New Zealand cuisine" is no longer an unthinkable string of words, and that there's more to the country's larder than frozen lamb and vast slabs of bland cheddar cheese. The past 20 years have seen an explosion of creativity among Kiwi chefs, restaurateurs and winemakers, as well as growing appreciation of the purity of the country's produce - a bankable quality in these times of genetic tomfoolery and junk food. Gourmands heading south over the next few months will be in for a treat...
...WELBURN Design Driver Now steering styling at General Motors is Welburn, 52, who was promoted in October to the top design job. Welburn is charged with advancing the work of his predecessor, Wayne Cherry, who rescued GM from the bland boxes it produced in the '80s and early '90s. Welburn recently headed design of GM trucks and SUVs, overseeing the look of the hot Cadillac Escalade and Hummer H2, among other vehicles. Welburn's passion is muscle cars: he created an Oldsmobile that sustained 257 m.p.h.--a world record...
...Temptation, which kicked off last Friday with a glitzy opener on the Loeb Mainstage, is, in a word, solid. Working under the competent direction of Geordie Broadwater ’04, the show’s talented cast brings a degree of energy to Havel’s rather bland script, and the resulting effort, despite lacking real nuance, is viable theater...
...Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, says his clubs have done so well that next year he is opening a third, in Plano, Texas. In Hallandale Beach, Fla., more than 600 people attended the August opening of Club Mighty, a once-a-month Christian nightclub created by insurance agent Sheldon Bland. "We get believers and nonbelievers," said Bland. "People are looking for an alternative to the typical club scene...