Word: dessertation
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...beaten lightly or the omelet will toughen. Don't allow the butter to brown, use at most just a pinch of salt, and be sure the pan is hot. Cook for precisely 15 seconds, stirring briskly in a circular motion with the side of a fork. Except for dessert omelets, he adds one special ingredient: Tabasco sauce. The later the night and the more the drinking, says Stanish, the more Tabasco...
...Experts estimate that the odds against an angler simply spotting a broadbill on any given day are 10 to 1. Even then the odds against hooking the fish are 15 to 1. Swordfish have to be coddled into taking a bait; with a full stomach only the most dessert-happy sword can be tempted by mackerel or squid. Fishermen have been known to make ten or more passes before a lazing giant without achieving so much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait, the battle is generally lost...
Flair for Marketing. That was before an enterprising Spaniard named Isaac Carasso began turning it out commercially during World War I. In 1929, in Paris, he opened a plant named Danone for his son Daniel, and called its product "the Dessert of Happy Digestion." Success was modest until the mid-1950s, when Danone caught the public fancy. In 1958, in the Paris suburb of Plessis-Robinson, Danone opened the world's largest yogurt factory, where 350 workers are able to turn out 1,600,000 pots (211,000 quarts) of yogurt a day, seven times as much...
...French doctors still prescribe it as a health food: it is low in fat-a prime consideration for liver-conscious Frenchmen-and high in protein and minerals. But yogurt has long since transcended the fad-food stigma. Though epicures gag at the thought, some Paris restaurants serve it at dessert time, right alongside the Brie, Chevre and Camembert...
...many-splendored diplomat is Edward Kennedy Ellington, 68. Invited to Washington to grace a White House dinner honoring Thailand's jazz-loving King Bhumibol and his Queen, the Duke had just spooned into his dessert when the background musicians, a championship jazz group from North Texas State University, ventured into Take the A Train, Ellington's theme song. Excusing himself from the table, the Duke moved into the motorman's seat at the piano, got the collegians home without missing a signal. What did he think of the young band? asked the King. "I wish it were...