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...have a simple choice: sweet or lightly salted. But over the past few years the average supermarket has begun stocking more brands, many with foreign pedigrees and costing $1 to $3 a pound more than mass-market butters. These gourmet, or European-style, butters have a higher butterfat content, making them creamier. There are cooking benefits as well: their lower moisture content makes for flakier pastries and less sputtering while sauteing. We tested a dozen of these butters from the U.S. and abroad. Here are our favorites...
That legacy persists. Deep down, Harvard would rather study the arts than practice them, at least as part of the formal curriculum. Neil and Angelica Rudenstine loved the arts more than Larry does, I think it is fair to say. But they were largely content to foster undergraduate extracurricular activity. What I have been arguing for, at the moment of the undergraduate curricular review and the planning for Allston, is for administrators and faculty not to ratify the present but to re-imagine the future...
...true beer fans, each season brings its own style of brew. Traditionally, spring means bocks. Bock beer in general is stronger than the average lager, with a more potent malt character, a slightly higher alcohol content and a deep amber hue. We gathered four beer experts--Matt Guyer of the Beer Yard, a beer specialty shop in Wayne, Pa.; New York City bartenders M.J. Keane and Rory Farrelly; and amateur beer aficionado Erika Ineson--to try some of the new seasonal offerings. Here are their favorites...
...Stoudt's Blonde Double MaiBock, which uses honey in its brewing to boost the alcohol content, ranked highest with our tasters, who thought the bright, rich flavor lived up to its perfect amber color...
David M. Debartolo and Anthony S.A. Freinberg’s recent commentary, though high on bumper-sticker worthy phrases, is vacuous ( Op-ed, “Stealing America’s Civil Liberties,” April 21 ). They never bother to consider that the content of our “civil liberties” is precisely the question at issue in the debate over how best to combat terrorism...