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...desserts were no more successful. The fresh fruit in kirsh ($.95) wasn't really; the fruit was canned, topped with a lone fresh strawberry, and what may have been a fresh banana. The custard of the creme caromel ($.60) was rich but the caramel was sugary and not browned sufficiently. The Babas au Rhum ($.95) tasted like a sponge soaked in other
...route, Marzi stops at a tobacco shop. "I'm a gumdrop in here to get some coins for the Trevi fountain," he says. Instead of a few coins, his change is a chocolate bonbon. "Nougat lire," the tobacconist explains. "Plus ca change, plus c'est la creme chose," observes the professor...
Electra-Bar is still not as versatile as its human counterpart. Eccentrics who ask for grasshoppers (creme de cacao, green creme de menthe and heavy cream) or the like still must have drinks made by hand. Also, vegetation for martinis must be inserted by the bartender. But tipplers who have sampled Electra's concoctions report they are remarkably uniform in taste, and generally excellent too. The next step, obviously, is a machine that will listen to the barfly's problems and make an appropriately sympathetic reply...
Hunch material can be found almost anywhere. One applicant in the early sixties, for example, concluded his autobiographical essay with the sentence, "I aspire to become a student at Harvard so that I may live and work with the creme de la creme. " That young man from Illinois had an academic rating of 2, and achievement scores over 780 in both American History and Chemistry. But his personal rating was 4, and he was rejected. "That kind of phrase can ruin you," Peterson says...
...going to shout aloud --Creme tangerine...