Word: candlelighting
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...Quotidien de Paris called the caper "the snobbiest heist of the year." The snobs who were implicated, it now appears, were hard up for money despite their splendiferous ways. The baroness had been living by candlelight in her Left Bank apartment, not for romantic reasons but because the power had been turned off for nonpayment. The baron had survived by serving as a house sitter for a rich Venezuelan woman on the Avenue Foch...
...birthplace of Auld Lang Syne is also the home of Hogmanay, a spectacularly rousing four-day celebration that welcomes the New Year with fire, music, parades and then some more fire. The party starts on Dec. 29 with a 15,000-strong song-filled candlelight procession and fire festival through Edinburgh and ends with the symbolic burning of a Viking longship. Days of parades, concerts, dog races and fireworks follow...
...homey waft of vanilla greets you as you walk into the barn-like Dressing Room. There are exposed beams overhead and flickering candlelight everywhere. The walls are paneled in warm woods "that came from a friend of Paul's in South Carolina named Bucky," Nischan says. "We call it Bucky-board." And the place may be new, but it's made to feel lived-in: the Bucky-board is adorned with posters advertising long-past productions?"Olivia de Havilland (in person) in Sir James M. Barrie's Classic Comedy What Every Woman Knows"?like family mementos in the home...
...stark space, all stainless steel and alabaster white. "Paul flipped out!" says chef Michel Nischan. "He wanted very country and very warm." And so a homey waft of vanilla greets you as you walk into the barn-like Dressing Room. There are exposed beams overhead and flickering candlelight everywhere. The walls are paneled in warm woods "that came from a friend of Paul's in South Carolina named Bucky," Nischan says. "We call it Bucky-board." And the place may be new, but it's made to feel lived-in: the Bucky-board is adorned with posters advertising long-past...
...tablescape is everything that is on the table: how the food is arranged, how close it is to us, what the plate looks like. It can also be whether the table is lit by candlelight, spotlight or fluorescent light. The tablescape not only influences how much we enjoy food; it has tremendous impact on how much we eat. We find that people who serve themselves from slightly smaller serving bowls serve themselves a smaller amount. With snacks, they end up taking 50% more if they were served in a large bowl rather than a small bowl. The same thing happens...