Word: dessert
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...summer's hot frozen dessert is no-cream ice cream
Creator Mintz, 53, is not surprised. A former caterer and a devout Orthodox Jew, Mintz suspected eight years ago that tofu could be the milk substitute he needed to make an ice-cream-like dessert that would not violate religious prohibitions against the mixing of meat and dairy products at the same meal. "It didn't come out right at the outset," he admits...
...canned cranberries had to be flown in from Hong Kong. Other ingredients were home grown: 176 lbs. of beef for the consomme, 440 lbs. of prawns, scallops, Mandarin fish and turbot for the seafood mousse appetizer, 132 lbs. of hearts of palm for the "panda" salad. For dessert: a praline ice cream dish made with 22 lbs. of almonds, 600 eggs, 36 quarts of cream and three bottles of Grand Marnier. Three types of vintage California wines were selected by Nancy Reagan...
...lunch, but everything goes wrong. The maître d' seats them at a table next to the kitchen. Then the executive orders what he thinks is healthful yet trendy fare: Lillet before the meal, followed by fruit salad, chicken à la king, and date-nut bread for dessert. But the executive's entrée costs him the client's respect, and worse, the deal. Reason: his food and drink give the wrong impression...
...people asked Bok nice questions about topics he had just covered in his dessert-time homily, and others asked him mean questions about whether the University was really serious about developing a Women's Studies program...