Word: brunches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Breakfast Time was the first to arrive, on Jan. 17. A relaxed, rather modest and determinedly cheery program lasting from 6:30a.m. to 9a.m., it features a mix of news stories, interviews and the amiable atmosphere of a Sunday brunch. Says Editor Ron Neil: "You cannot machine-gun people with information at that time in the morning." The program massages them with it instead. The hosts (modestly called presenters, not anchors) are the avuncular Frank Bough, a veteran of the British sports program Grandstand, and the fetching Princess Di lookalike, Selina Scott, whose alluring television manner may heat up cold...
...bags, bring drinks and tend the little coal stoves that provide hot water. Attendants also take care of all passport formalities. The bubbly flows. People meet and chat easily. The meals, whipped up in a space hardly bigger than most apartment kitchens, include dinner and a next-day brunch. They would probably earn the rolling restaurant one toque in the Gault-Millau Guide. After dinner, Chef Ranvier gives one impressed guest his recipe for le foie gras de canard cuit naturellement. At brunch, rocketing through the broad plains of northern Italy, there is an exceptional dish of small chickens with...
...numerous nights on the road spent persuading strange girls at far-away colleges to let a few players throw their sleeping bags on the floor, ultimately charming the ladies into preparing a pre-game brunch the next morning...
...time his senior year began, Ted Tsomides was tired of losing weight. He mentioned this in passing when he sat down to brunch one Sunday with a plate of reconstitued scrambled eggs and a bowl of mysterious hot cereal which assumes different names on different days of the week but always tastes the same...
...also boasts almost 200 golf courses, and styles itself, naturally, the Golf Capital of the Free World. But it is, above all, the glamour and drama of polo that give social focus to many Gold Coast lives. The 3 p.m. Sunday match at the P.B.P.C.C., preceded by a champagne brunch, is an Event. "A day without polo," sighs one veteran, paraphrasing Brillat-Savarin, "is like a day without...