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Want to give an old lunch standby a new kick? Of the 210 million Americans who eat peanut butter, only 60 million are children. New all-natural flavored peanut butters from Peanut Butter & Co. and Peanut Betters are making PB&Js more than kid stuff. Flavors like Cinnamon Currant or Dark Chocolate Dreams are great with fruit, while savory blends like Rosemary Garlic and Thai Ginger & Red Pepper can also be used in recipes. --L.McL...
...great talent to imbue a dish with flavor that is sustained to the finish of an entree-sized portion. The Venison Sirloin ($35) is a masterpiece, briefly seared and served rare. The roast pears bring out the sweetness in the meat, and the acidity in the jus of red currants (a fresh take on traditional currant jelly) temper its gaminess. After small tastes, my companions were ready to fight me for the remainder of the dish. The Roast Squab ($34) was also good—another example of the kitchen’s sure hand with game. I was forewarned...
...picking up a lot of the cassis?the black currant fruit," says Steve Skinner, the assistant winemaker at Trinity Hill Vineyard in Hawke's Bay, as he swirls a sample of almost vermilion liquid around his glass. "But I'm seeing the savory side of the bottle aging?a certain leathery character and a lot of lanolin." Travel in New Zealand and you had better learn to speak the language of vintners and wine tasters. You might find yourself chatting about Cabernet with a cabbie, and Pinot Noir with a parking attendant...
While few would venture to call the UnitedStates a "woman's world" today, Madonna hasapparently taken the idea of a "geisha asentertainer" to heart and was so inspired that thevideo of her new single "Nothing Really Matters"is based on the au currant geisha-look, asis Gaultier's last collection. The infatuationhardly stops there, as, according to theBazaar article, Madonna and her assistantstalk about Golden's characters as if they're realpeople, with Madonna identifying with the evilHatsumomo. Rumor also has it that Madonna wouldlike a role in Spielberg's up coming movie, and atthe Public Library talk Golden confirmed...
...beau, the agent Leland Hayward, Hepburn talks about living in Los Angeles' Coldwater Canyon, living in Benedict Canyon, finding a snake in her living room, buying real estate and embarrassing a young doctor at lunch. And that's the story of Leland Hayward. There is also a recipe for currant cake, and four pages devoted to changing a tire on I-95. If there's someone who has written eloquently about Katharine Hepburn, it isn't Katharine Hepburn...