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...official sign of authenticity. This elegant place, with dark red carpets and soft furnishings, sets the standard: their torte is still based on the 1832 handwritten recipe, which is the hotel's most closely guarded secret. tel: (43-1) 514 560; www.sacher.com Cafe Diglas The café's red currant slice, piled high with the berries and a glossy meringue, is legendary, and the banana and chocolate variety is very popular. Café Diglas features marble-topped tables, dark wood paneling and red plush seating, and isn't touristy. There is live piano music three evenings a week...
...details that are so costly and integral to couture. He showed his hand as a master colorist, trotting out unexpected combinations like a sari-style chiffon gown in grapefruit hues of pink and yellow, trimmed in turquoise, or pieces in pastel blues set off with deep, rich black-currant-colored velvet trim. He even resurrected his signature '80s silhouette, the pouf skirt. "I feel serene," he said after the show...
...should be grateful for the British empire. Not only am I, as the child of former British colonials, bred to like Ovaltine and black currant jelly at teatime, without a doubt I owe the British empire my very life. Without the existence of the imperial outpost of Hong Kong, my grandparents would not have found safe haven from war-torn China, my parents would not have gone to America, and I would never be here at Harvard...
What do they cook? Asian specialties—things that involve currants and bamboo shoots. Maybe some sort of bamboo-currant stew...
...chocolate and caramel, and J. Lo's Still Jennifer Lopez, which features top notes of sake. "Rum, licorice, milk and rice flavors are now used in perfumes frequently," says Jean-Michel Duriez, a perfumer for Jean Patou Paris. The company's latest scent, Enjoy, carries notes of black-currant bud, green banana and pear. Observes Michael Edwards, author of the yearly guidebook Fragrances of the World: "Gourmand notes in perfumes are comforting...