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Moving from a committee meeting on educational policy to a caf??© where parliamentarians discuss agricultural subsidies with their staff members, I spend a lively few hours, meanwhile musing on the current shortcomings of this unique political project. The daunting task which befalls all European integrationists at present is to give a new meaning to the EU. The rationale for integration used to be simple: after World War II, the main objective was peace, a goal which the peoples of Europe understood and shared all too well. Today, peace within Europe is so self-evident that the process of integration...
...community," she says. "You might turn people off if they think, At that salon, they're going to preach Jesus to me." In recent years, as her clientele solidified and evangelical Christians gained prominence nationwide, she grew bolder. She had Scripture stenciled on the walls and named the adjoining caf?? Java Garden (as in Garden of Eden). The salon plays Christian rock, displays Christian magazines and forbids cursing or gossip. Stylists halt haircuts to pray with clients. The dose of religion is paying off. She serves 1,000 clients a month, grosses $540,000 a year and moved the salon...
...more mass-market Ethel's Chocolate Lounges, created by Mars Inc., the U.S.'s No. 2 candy vendor. Mars has launched three Ethel's in Chicago this year and plans on three more by the end of summer. Indiana-based South Bend Chocolate Co. has opened seven Chocolate Caf??s in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan in the past two years, and Vosges, a Chicago-based truffle company, has established four Haut-Chocolat Purple Houses in New York City, Chicago and Las Vegas...
Like fine coffee, gourmet chocolate involves a variety of beans, appellations and processes. And tasters across the U.S. are discovering that the complexities of a luxury are far more enthralling in a group setting. At Chocolate Springs Caf?? in Lenox, Mass., connoisseurs nibble on feather-light champagne cognac truffles and fresh garden-mint chocolates while relaxing to live piano music on weekends. At Moonstruck Chocolate Caf?? in Beaverton, Ore., patrons attuned to the nuances of flavor order several pieces of chocolate with varying percentages of cacao beans. While the confections and connoisseurship may be less rarefied at the more mainstream...
Some prefer to take their chocolate hit--and run . Gina Sodergren, 27, likes to stop in for a prework brew at the Leonidas Chocolate Caf?? in Santa Monica, one of two opened in the Los Angeles area in the past year by the Belgian chocolate company. "They have stuff like Orange Velvet and Peppermint Delight and Mexican Cocoa," she says, "drinks you can't find anywhere else...