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...Washington Post Co. has sparkled during the market downturn, and over the 30 years that Buffett has owned the stock he has turned an $11 million investment into $1.2 billion. More recently, he has been snapping up steady cash-producing private businesses like kitchen retailer The Pampered Chef...
...president of Hearst Magazines, who sits with Buffett on the Coke board, has broached the idea at IBM, another firm at which she serves as a director. Diller says he intends to stop granting stock options altogether and look for another incentive plan. Doris Christopher, who sold The Pampered Chef to Berkshire, says she has been captivated by Buffett's willingness to lose money in the short run to preserve a firm's reputation--like, say, eating the cost of shipping a product express after a customer has had it on back order. She advocates that approach at three nonprofit...
After starting his career in the food business in 1975 at a small restaurant in Harvard Square, Pappas worked at a Mexican restaurant in Framingham before coming to HUDS in 1978. Pappas has worked as a chef here for 20 years, mostly in Currier House. His wife continues to work in Cabot House...
...Third-generation chef and part-owner Hosni Emam came to Hong Kong in 1999 to work as an executive chef on the booming restaurant scene, but it wasn't until the homesick Cairo native started cooking Egyptian feasts for appreciative dinner guests in his tiny apartment that he thought of opening his own restaurant. His friends raved about his flavorful meze (vegetable-based Egyptian appetizers) and succulent tagens (traditional slow-baked stews of meat, vegetables and herbs), but they doubted the menu would sell in a city dominated by Continental and Chinese restaurants. Undeterred, Emam teamed up with veteran Hong...
DIED. BERNARD LOISEAU, 52, celebrated French chef whose La C?te d'Or restaurant, recipient of three stars from the Michelin guide, was a pilgrimage site for gastronomes the world over; from a self-inflicted shotgun wound; in Saulieu, France. Late last month, La C?te d'Or was downgraded by rival food bible Gault-Millau, which gave it a 17-out-of-20 score, slipping from its previous 19. The only chef in the world to have a public company, Loiseau rose to fame as a pioneer of nouvelle cuisine and operated three other eateries in Paris. His death sparked criticism...