Word: chai
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...always try not to be ‘against things,’" he says while sipping chai, methodically breaking his tea stirrer into smaller and smaller pieces. "We always try to have a vision for what we’re for." Recently, that vision was last fall’s "Justice for Janitors" campaign which successfully fought for higher wages for custodial staff; a dining hall workers support campaign that garnered 1,300 responses this spring; and the recently won fight to get Saintely Paul, a janitor who had been fired after allegedly fainting at work, reinstated...
...Will the U.S. be able to recognize and accept that democracy and freedom as interpreted by those new global powers will be significantly different from those of Western models? And will the U.S. really be willing to share power in a way it has never done before? Lee Ah Chai Singapore...
...impressive c.v., culminating in a performance at the Cit? de la Musique in Paris last November. "I tell you, he was a superstar," reports composer Lim, who was on hand. And refreshingly down-to-earth. While taking a break from recording in Sydney earlier this year, Barton sipped chai tea while reminiscing about his newfound love of Guinness-drinking in Ireland. "Sweet like nectar," he says. The same could be said of the sublime sounds from this new branch of an old musical tree...
...then collect the remaining pure cake in both hands, eating out of my palms like a crazed bird on a sugar high. And when no one was looking, I'd shove the paper in my mouth and chew it like cupcake gum. Even now I like an occasional chai latte--flavored Sprinkles cupcake, just as I appreciate a great burger or mac and cheese. The problem is that in the yuppie-under-40 set, there are no other desserts. Just a constant weighing and comparing and blogging about the nation's cupcakeries, as if they were the Goldberg Variations...
...past three decades, meaning that consumption has doubled every 7.2 years. What's the appeal? Like spackle for the diet, marketed to the soul, it increasingly fills the holes in our nutritional and daily eating habits. Yogurt is shape-shifting into ever more unlikely forms and flavors--squeezable, drinkable, chai, cappuccino and black currant--while nailing three major food trends: convenience, portion control and health. "Give it a few more generations, and this could be the No. 1 food," says Harry Balzer, vice president of the NPD Group, a firm that tracks America's eating habits. "This is where...