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...Leftovers have been a part of human eating culture since ancient man realized the fruits of a hunt would stay edible for a while if they were stored in the back of a cold, dark cave. Ancient Greeks and Romans hauled ice and snow down from the mountains, wrapped it in straw or buried it in cellars where it slowed down food spoilage, although "leftovers" back then were more along the lines of fall harvest foods that could be stored and eaten when sustenance was scarce...
Mobile Menu. Feed your pumpkin-pie sugar high at the Dessert Truck, parked in New York City's Midtown. The truck's famous bread pudding and dark chocolate mousse bombe are cooked up by former Le Cirque pastry sous chef Jerome Chang. It's high-end food at street-level prices, the new recession-era way to eat. The Dessert Truck is parked on Park Avenue, between 51st and 53rd Streets on weekdays from noon to 4 p.m.; at night, from 6 p.m. to midnight, it's at Third Avenue and 8th Street...
Extracted from Falling Off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization, by Alex Perry, $26, published by Bloomsbury Press...
...Commander in Chief. Over the past eight years, the Bush Administration has erected a new array of military detention camps, interrogation methods and spy programs of questionable legality. During the presidential campaign, Obama promised to dismantle much of that apparatus, arguing that the Bush Administration's walk on the dark side had eroded freedoms at home and damaged America's reputation abroad. But doing so will take more time and prove more complicated than some of his supporters may realize...
...running passage work passed from the bass strings to the violins, and the dark, brooding lines in the brass reflected the programmatic themes of the work. The muted lyrical theme in the strings in the middle of the first movement was sustained especially well and helped the overlapping phrases build to the climatic end of the movement...