Word: caramelize
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There has been a shift in Americans' tastes, in the direction of "lighter" drinks. The terms are vague, but light usually connotes lower proof, a less pronounced taste and lighter color, while heavy whiskies have a definite flavor, more aftertaste and more caramel color. Scotch blenders, capitalizing on their whisky's carefully nurtured reputation for lightness, have in recent years pitched their promotions to the status conscious,* the young and the increasing number of women drinkers...
American and British composers have been misrepresented to some extent by the works which have proven digestible, but it still seems that they possess a weary delight in the mood of the rose-garden. The typical audience salivates for the caramel center of he symphonic repertoire. Its decayed sweet tooth cannot be extracted by more sugar, and its delight in gratuitous perfumes cannot be disciplined by more profferments of dusty oleander. This never-ending recovery of "adolescence" and "national roots" on the part of Anglo-Saxon composers, their incessant celebration of the precious and popular, reaches an apotheosis of sorts...
...confections, in fact, should ideally double as weapons. Sugar Daddy lollipops, made of viscid caramel, will last through any double feature, and their remains can always be left on the seat, where they are guaranteed to adhere tenaciously to the victim's bottom...
...full pay as early as 55. Theaters in cosmopolitan Montevideo offer such lively fare as Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy and Strindberg's Miss Julia; in the city's quiet little tearooms, a cup of coffee brings free pastries, potato salad, sausages, octopus, pickled cauliflower and caramel pies. At the pleasant seaside resort of Punte del Este, thousands of high-living tourists spread money around like so many beach blankets. In fact, Uruguay's main problem is that it has too much of a good thing...
...Washington, with the departure of Nicole Alphand, party-giving wife of the former French ambassador, the Spanish and Venezuelan embassies have become the chic places to go, and Latin fare has leaped into prominence. The favorites: esponjoso, a rich, caramel-covered confection that delighted Lady Bird when she sampled it at the Venezuelan embassy, and pisio, a Spanish vegetable concoction similar to the French ratatouille...