Word: borscht
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...whipped out a pre-printed transcript of the keynote remarks Kerry would deliver in less than an hour inside the convention. He then began to read them in Triumph’s embittered voice, holding the puppet high all the while and interspersing Kerry high notes with a few Borscht Belt punchlines...
However, this was supposed to be a Valentine’s Day brunch. And the love was, alas, sadly lacking. I struggle, for example, to think of anything less aphrodisiacal than borscht. Yet somehow it made an appearance on the menu. Beet soup may have its own Gulag-chic thing going, I guess, but it screams sex appeal about as much as a Russian shot putter in a catsuit...
...meal. Secretary Agnès Geniusaite explains: "We're all looking for places to eat our traditional food." There are, alas, no Lithuanian restaurants in Brussels. So every few weeks Geniusaite and colleagues gather at somebody's house for dishes like balandeliai (stuffed cabbage) and saltibarsciai (a kind of borscht). The Lithuanians are not alone in their plight. In the past year, some 4,000 people from the 10 countries scheduled to join the E.U. in 2004 have moved to Brussels to work in embassies, delegations and E.U. institutions. Many more will come before May 1, the official expansion date...
...Colorado Rockies, a sprawling, gilded campus that looks like casino magnate Steve Wynn's take on Tibet, has gone from 1,342 visitors in 1998 to a projected 15,000 this year. The Catskills hotels in New York are turning into meditation retreats so quickly that the Borscht Belt is being renamed the Buddhist Belt. And, as with any great American trend that finds its way onto the cover of TIME, many of these meditators are famous. To name just a few: Goldie Hawn, Shania Twain, Heather Graham, Richard Gere and Al Gore, if he still counts as famous...
...complete with wooden pillars and fountains. Never mind that you're in China and not eating, you know, Chinese food: Shanghai prides itself on offering up the best of whatever global nosh you're craving. After all, this is the city where the favorite soup is not wonton but borscht - brought by the city's East European immigrants in the early 1900s and now proudly made by countless Shanghai grandmas. After you finish your phad thai or tikka masala, head to Face's bar, which opens out to a sweeping lawn. Sit in the Ming-style chairs for a quiet...