Word: butter
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...ones who do the authorizing." Still, most of Italy's organized crime network has been ordering up fewer hits, the number of which had peaked in 1982 when there were more than 700 murders in Palermo and the surrounding towns. These days the Mob's prime focus is on butter not guns. And to make the profits multiply, top bosses have turned to that prototype man in the tailored suit. He is the true motor for the New Mafia, toting a business or economics degree, having a family connection and ready (knowingly or otherwise) to help expand a criminal, money...
...learned that the lack of variety was made up for by the high quality of the cuisine. Our journey through Veneto started with warm, grainy bread served in a wooden bowl. We were presented a delicious white bean spread flavored with garlic. The paste was a refreshing alternative to butter and we had to agree with our waitress that it was “absolutely addictive...
...very nice rendition of a fish that seems to be turning up on more menus by the second. The ample portion of skate was perfectly cooked, with a nice crust on the outside, but still extremely tender inside. The dish did not need to be literally swimming in butter, but the morel mushrooms were also fresh and flavorful. In another entrée bright spot, the pork and garlic sausage player in the Blue Room’s mixed grill ($21 for the sausage and two tasty, if unexceptional, portions of squab and sweetbreads) was well-prepared and pleasingly garlicky...
Broadband Internet-service providers, primarily telephone and cable-TV companies, hope to nudge customers toward home networking in part to create a customer base for the broadband services they believe are their future bread and butter: video on demand, music and other services pumped in over fast pipes and distributed over a home network that connects more than just the family PCs. Plus, the isps argue, networking makes bottom-line sense for many families. "If you're trying to convince someone to buy a high-speed line for $50 or $60 a month, the idea of sharing that line makes...
Hallie Vanderhider, 44, a single mother of 15-year-old twin boys in Houston, hired a chef in January to prepare three family meals a week for $200, including the cost of the food. "Before this, sometimes all I had time to make was peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches," she says. Evenings with her kids are much happier, she adds. The three of them have reached a consensus on ingredients: no mushrooms, onions or artichokes. Says their chef, Jackie Alejo: "No problem." Vanderhider, chief financial officer for a money-management firm, has just one regret: "I wish I had thought...