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...blame my parents. They gave me the Fisher-Price Junior Radiologist kit for my fourth birthday. During third grade, they withheld my dessert until I abandoned my ambition to be an astronaut. Lately, they have forwarded articles to my dorm about lawyers who kill themselves...
Czar Nicholas II and his family died in a Bolshevik fusillade in 1918, but their Crimean wine cellar and attendant vineyards lived on. In 1922 Stalin added to the former imperial wine collection by rounding up bottles from other czarist palaces. Last week many of those rare dessert wines finally fell into capitalist hands. On Sotheby's London auction floor, Western wine dealers ponied up $1,074,544 for 13,000 bottles of the Romanovs' best...
People who love the taste of fat but hate to think about what it's doing to their arteries will soon have a way to feel less guilty at dessert time. Last week the Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of a creamy fat substitute that consists of proteins from egg whites and milk. Called Simplesse and made by the NutraSweet Co., the new product will be allowed only in imitation ice cream and other frozen desserts, but it could eventually go into many more foods, including mayonnaise and sour cream. Simplesse cannot withstand heat and so will...
...invited me to lunch in late May and there gave me a list of people to look up in England; he knew everyone there. During dessert, I remarked with a chuckle that the University was having trouble finding a place for me at Oxford and would probably stick me in a broom closet. My comment evoked what I took to be an insignificant "oh, really...
...owners work 50 hours a week each, saysFriberg, standing behind blue counters anddispensing the swirled frozen dessert to thecustomers she affectionately calls her "regulars...