Word: caviare
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...property, SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills, opens next month. Rather than the flashy design motifs of the past, the emphasis is on quieter indulgences. Design retailer Murray Moss will select objects to display for sale in vitrines throughout the lobby. Visitors will be able to sample odd delicacies like caviar cones from food carts...
...welcome first for a Bond movie—Forster washes his film of that movie’s operatic pretensions, and consequently “Quantum of Solace” feels less satisfyingly rich, less deeply felt. But gone forever is the Bond who orders beluga caviar and Dom Perignon on MI6’s dime only to wrap his legs around unsuspecting damsels. He isn’t quite the killer he wants to be, nor is he the saintly avenger we expect him to become. Political espionage isn’t sexy anymore, he seems to say resignedly...
...biting incidents that were said to have ended his Hollywood career. And his drinking habits can't have helped either - only the onset of diabetes forced him to become a teetotaler, albeit an unrepentant one: "There's a little more dignity in sharing a couple of cocktails, some caviar and a good cigar on a yacht with Katherine Hepburn and Nunnally Johnson than there is in washing down your sugar-free seventy-fifth birthday cake with a can of Diet Pepsi and a SpongeBob SquarePants hat askew on your head...
...work in a 100-degree kitchen because I wanted to be a chef. I didn’t dream of creating cakes intricate enough to be mistaken for architectural models. I could live without learning how to infuse foam with grapefruit essence or make lavender gelatin look like caviar. I went to Italy because I was a foodie harboring a big, dark secret: I was afraid I couldn’t cook. Prior to my trip, I’d thrown my share of dinner parties with no reported instances of poisoning or death. But the only dish...
...Republic, and then The Nation, Manny built his caviar reputation. By now he was in New York, pursuing his three careers, befriending the right people in the Abstract Expressionist world and in magazine criticism. (Can't say whether he also hobnobbed with the top carpenters.) Like an assiduous upward-achiever, he was trying to get noticed; he didn't succeed enough to suit him. Even in his late collages, Manny was craving the attention of the art-critical establishment. A scrap on his painting Batiquitos reads: "Heaven to be noticed by Roberta Smith or [Adam] Gopnik...