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...ideas. He eats at In-N-Out, the California burger chain. The salmon canape was inspired by a night at Baskin-Robbins, when he looked at his cone in a new way. His signature dessert, coffee and doughnuts (cappuccino semifreddo, a flavored mousse, topped with steamed milk, accompanied by cinnamon-sugar doughnuts) was thought up one panicked late night at a doughnut shop when he was poor and struggling and desperate to impress the James Beard Foundation at a dinner the next night. It's effete food with testosterone subtext...
DIED. JORGE AMADO, 88, celebrated Brazilian writer whose 32 books were translated into some 50 languages; in Salvador, Brazil. His early novels, which often took swipes at Brazilian politicians, landed the author in prison and exile in the 1940s. Years later, his bawdier novels, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958) and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), were turned into movies...
...wheat bread without getting sick of its discolored brown and grainy consistency reminds me of how thankful I should be for the bread basket in Cabot, which is itself notoriously understocked. I now treasure the opportunity during the school year when I could choose between an English muffin and cinnamon raisin bread without having to buy entire packages of each...
...poet." On Chorus and the Ring, he sings, "It's the poison that in measures brings illuminating vision/It's the knowing with a wink that we expect in Southern women." His lyrics may appear random, but they can aim for Proustian resonance. A line on Imitation--"That's cinnamon that's Hollywood"--is meant to conjure memories of eating cinnamon toast in childhood and feelings of innocence lost...
What American export is hot in Japan these days? Cinnamon buns--big, gooey pastries with an aroma that could send you into insulin shock. In 1999, when Atlanta-based Cinnabon opened its first outlet there, 300 people lined up to buy its buns, says Gregg Kaplan, president of the chain. Rather than try to sell cinnamon buns in Japan on its own, the company partnered with Sugakico, a successful operator of a chain of ramen-noodle restaurants. Two years later, sales are five times as high at Japanese outlets as at those in the U.S. of comparable size and location...