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...blistered perfection in the woodburning oven, and he expertly spins and lifts the pizza with the long wooden paddle. He has the alchemist's touch that turns mere dough and a minimal amount of the simplest toppings into a cavalcade of flavor. The secret to eating a thin-crust Neapolitan pizza is to slash the pie into four pieces on the spot, fold a slice in half, and wolf it down before the crust deflates and the sauce makes a Vesuvian lava flow down your front. With every passing fraction of a second, the pizza loses...
...executive at an industrial gas company. John became a Queen's Counsel, married the daughter of an ambassador to Bulgaria and devotes himself to charities for Bulgarian children because, he says, "Who wants to be the richest corpse in the graveyard?" But he hasn't lost his corrosive upper-crust wit: "I reckon if I shoot the horses, shoot the wife, and only drink Bulgarian wine, I may be able to retire at age 94 or something...
...approaching; that, of course, sets us thinking about pumpkin pie. Then, once you’ve started thinking about pumpkin pie, apple pie comes to mind (another autumn pie, a natural next step). This opens up a whole wealth of fruit pie thoughts—not to mention one-crust versus two-crust versus lattice-top—and suddenly you’re standing in front of Out of Town News slack-jawed and drooling with no recollection of how you got there, screaming at people about blueberries and buttery flaky crust. Wait, that’s never happened...
...Estimated height of Mt. Everest, the world's tallest mountain 3.7 m Estimated distance Everest has shrunk since 1975, according to Chinese geologists who said last week that the Himalayas have "peaked" and will perhaps grow smaller due to the effects of gravity on Asia's continental crust...
...morals to a well-spoken suitor, played by Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08. Within minutes, however, her self-described Puritanism is challenged when her friend, the bombastic Duchess of Berwick, played by Jen C. Sullivan ’09, tells her about what all of the upper crust has been discussing for months: the large sums of money that Lord Windermere (Brian B. C. Polk ’09) has been paying to Mrs. Erlynne (Allison B. Kline ’09), a woman with a shady past, who long ago lost her place in society. What follows...