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There are a lot of different factors Micheale Kester has to juggle when she invents your next scoop of ice cream. Right now she's not as concerned about flavor or texture--although those are important--as she is about architecture. Kester, a food technologist in the Burbank, Calif., labs of ice cream giant Baskin-Robbins, has been fooling around with an idea for a flavor she calls Cinnamon Bun, but first she has to make sure the stuff will hold together. If you're not careful with the size and number of your chips, nuts or bun bits--what...
...Kester doesn't really have the luxury of guessing. Baskin-Robbins' trademark list of 31 flavors has expanded to almost 1,000 since the company was founded nearly 60 years ago. To keep that number growing, eight food technologists in the Burbank facility each come up with about 20 new flavor brainstorms a year; of all those, perhaps three or four make it to the big leagues. The shelves of canisters filled with Oreos, M&M's and other colorful inclusions that line the laboratory walls certainly keep the ideas flowing. So too does the dream of being the person...
Rolando Flores ’07 of Burbank, Calif., said it felt good to be from a well-represented state, and that the adjustment to the East Coast had been an easy process...
DIED. JOHN RITTER, 54, Emmy Award-winning actor who energized the racy (for the 1970s) hit ABC sitcom Three's Company as the goofy, bumbling Jack Tripper, a straight bachelor living platonically with two women; of a coronary-artery tear; in Burbank, Calif., after collapsing on the set of his latest hit show, 8 Simple Rules...for Dating My Teenage Daughter. The son of country-and-western singer and film star Tex Ritter, he worked frequently on TV (his other series included Hooperman and Hearts Afire) and had roles in the 1996 film Sling Blade and on Broadway...
DIED. GISELE MACKENZIE, 76, Canadian-born singer and 1950s TV star; of colon cancer; in Burbank, Calif. The daughter of a Winnipeg doctor, she was a regular on Your Hit Parade, where she and such co-stars as Snooky Lanson and Dorothy Collins would perform the top seven songs of each week. She was later a regular on The Sid Caesar Show and starred in her own short-lived variety series...