Word: copper
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...trick questions. Buying books--or fancy products--stamped with the names of the world's finest chefs is just the latest form of gourmet porn. The consumer gets to fantasize that with aids like a dollop of Jean-Georges's special tamarind paste or one of Ducasse's $275 copper saucepans, one can whip oneself and one's guests to the heights of culinary ecstasy. And for the chefs--brash, dashing and at the pinnacle of their artistic careers--their extra-kitchen activities are about creating, and extending, their brand names in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Being a chef today...
Lankard took his fight all the way to Washington, where lawmakers would oversee the land deals. He became a familiar sight in the Capitol with his battered leather backpack, laptop computer and a small, smooth stone from his beloved Copper River that he always carried. The chief of the Eyak tribe renamed him Jamachakih. Translation: "little bird that screams really loud and won't shut...
Ferguson has had access to all the surviving Rothschild archives, including the family's vast private correspondence, which fills 135 boxes. He sorts through the intricacies of their business deals: financing governments, bill brokering, working the international bullion market, trading in American cotton and tobacco, Spanish mercury and Russian copper. The legerdemain of speculative finance in another century is sometimes occult material, but Ferguson manages it well...
...upshot is that energy bars today are a mixed bag. At the stoic extreme is MET-Rx, the nation's No. 3-selling brand, whose carb- and protein-heavy bars have 40% of the zinc, copper, chromium and magnesium you need in a day, along with a boatload of vitamins and almost no fat. But even MET-Rx concedes that its chalky bars are no treat. "If you're virtuous, you're going to trade off taste," says MET-Rx CEO Len Moskovits. "Try chewing on a vitamin pill--it doesn't taste that good." Pure Protein's slightly medicinal...
...series of pavilions containing restaurants franchised from celebrated ones in New York, Boston and San Francisco, including two clones of Sirio Maccioni's operations, Le Cirque 2000 and Osteria del Circo. You drive up the side of the Lago di Comovegas and arrive at a gigantic porte cochere, patinated copper and glass, inspired by the vaults of Milan's Galleria. Beyond that stretches the foyer, acres of marble and mosaic floor. And the ceiling chandelier, the largest glass sculpture ever made, 30 ft. by 70 ft. of writhing, billowing trumpets and petals by the glass artist Dale Chihuly. And more...