Word: bourbonized
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...choices rise. Toward the end of the process the Sony execs had nearly settled on a blend of orange and vanilla, with a hint of cedarwood added to the mix so the feminine-leaning smell wouldn't scare off men. (A male exec had suggested a drop of bourbon, but it was decided that cedarwood would provide a similar yet subtler tone.) Then, sitting around a conference table strewn with perfumer's blotter paper, the execs had a final request: Could the orange be snazzier, more of a blood orange? ScentAir dug into its library of about 40 orangey smells...
NICHOLSON: I was going to set the table on fire with bourbon out of my mouth, but I forgot they didn't give me real bourbon...
...surface, which is the only part of most major cities that tourists visit, New Orleans seems to have cleaned itself up quite nicely in the year since Katrina. French Quarter businesses have swept their stoops and hung banners, and bawdy Bourbon Street is awash in neon; Creole stalwarts like Galatoire's and Arnaud's are once again dishing up gumbo and crawfish etouffe, and live music spills nightly from funky clubs Uptown and on Frenchmen Street, an entertainment strip adjacent to the French Quarter; even the mammoth Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, which became a symbol of human suffering...
...disembodiment, of radical anti-locality, extends throughout its menu. A "Tuscan Shrimp Salad" bears only a notional relationship to Tuscany, where I have never seen the discordant, more-Asian-than-Italian marriage of almonds, shrimp, sun-dried tomatoes, hot peppers, sweet peppers, and soft lettuce. Were I on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans, and was delivered a steak as bland as the Applebee's "Bourbon Street Steak," I would leave, drink three or four Hurricanes, and call...
...confessions: I cleaned my plate of the shrimp salad. It was a too-busy mixture of flavors, but the lettuce was clean; the shrimp were well seasoned and not overcooked; and the dressing wasn't too heavy. I didn't care for the Bourbon Street steak, but I ate most of a "Veggie Patch Pizza" even though it dishonored the very idea of pizza since the "ultra-thin" crust turned out to be a tortilla. I went back to the Jamestown Applebee's even after I had what I needed for this piece...