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...latest green obsession is mâche, also known as lamb's lettuce or corn salad. Full of antioxidants, vitamin A, calcium and potassium, and with a buttery texture, the sweet, nutty green has been cultivated for centuries in Europe but wasn't widely available commercially in the U.S. When Koons' Epic Roots shipped its first field-grown mâche in 2002, the bags could be found in fewer than 100 stores; now more than 3,000 stores carry them. And last year Burger King added mâche to its mixed salads, moving the greens that much closer to the mainstream...
Bryan Singer, director of the X-Men movies and the upcoming Superman Returns, is strolling through the rolling cornfields around what will soon be Clark Kent's childhood home. The corn is 12 weeks old, he says proudly, and was grown especially for the movie. "This entire house was constructed on a soundstage," Singer explains, "and then disassembled, rebuilt here in Tamworth [Australia] and then redressed." Not only are we not in Kansas anymore, but apparently we were never there in the first place...
...researchers are working on scientific solutions to the sticky scourge. Graciela Padua, a food scientist at the University of Illinois, in Urbana, has developed a biodegradable gum made of zein, a corn derivative. It's costly to make but doesn't adhere to surfaces. And its flavor? "It tastes plain," Padua admits, "but you can blow big bubbles." --By Jeremy Caplan
Katrencik, who could not be reached for direct comment, likes to share her culinary experience, encouraging her audience to “take an active position towards architecture†by consuming it. While showing her work at the Carpenter Center in 2000, Katrencik made lollipops of sugar, corn syrup, and concrete, and in her recent project, she presented visitors with bread containing minerals from the sheet rock...
Exemplifying the fears bedeviling investors today is the daily (hourly) drumbeat about the dollar and the deficits, especially the "unsustainable" current account deficit. The mantra should be familiar: the U.S. saves too little and consumes too much. We are mortgaging our future, consuming our seed corn. If foreigners stop buying our debt, the dollar will collapse and interest rates soar. The only direction for the dollar is down, and so on. It was reported that former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker puts the chances of a financial crisis at 75% over the next few years...