Word: caked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...club dues as investment gains (they weren't), evidently were making incorrect entries into their computer. Nobody double-checked the math. Poof! There goes their mystique, and possibly the lucrative cottage industry they had developed. Their first book, which mixed down-home recipes for the likes of Kentucky cream cake with investment tips, had that Warren Buffett-like 23.4% emblazoned across the cover. It sold 800,000 copies...
...chocolate soup may sound like a childhood attempt to find the right ratio between fudge sauce and ice cream in a sundae. But the dish was highly sophisticated, made from velvety, warm, bittersweet chocolate swirled with a touch of cream and punctuated by croutons of cinnamon pound cake. The second dessert, slices of wine-soaked strudel wrapped in phyllo pastry and served with poached pear, saves the tables from gluttonous chocolate saturation and coffee inevitably rounds out the meal...
Instead of watching our professors, some of us are critiquing our neighbor's thighs. Instead of talking in section, some of us are counting calories. Hands turn orange, laxatives get consumed, hours get lost hunched over a StairMaster. Some of us can't even eat our own birthday cake...
...Sale price of a 2.4 oz. piece of cake from the 1937 wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor that was auctioned off last week...
...MERRILL, 77, songwriting polymath whose hits ranged from How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? to Barbra Streisand's signature People; in Los Angeles. Merrill started his career writing such airy novelties for Tin Pan Alley as If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked a Cake and Mambo Italiano. He racked up 18 Top 10 hits between 1949 and 1956. His success continued on Broadway where he wrote the lyrics for Funny Girl and Carnival, among many others. Merrill also wrote screenplays, including one for Mahogany, starring Diana Ross...