Word: dessertation
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Similarly, students passing by the Science Center tomorrow at lunchtime should buy one of the Ben & Jerry’s “peace pops” sold there for dessert. In an effort coordinated by the Phillips Brooks House Association, volunteers will be selling ice cream donated by Brian Queen, the manager of the local Ben & Jerry’s franchise. The pops will be sold for their normal price of $3, and all of the proceeds will go to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund...
...insists that it's American. His ingredients are American, he says, as are his ideas. He eats at In-N-Out, the California burger chain. The salmon canape was inspired by a night at Baskin-Robbins, when he looked at his cone in a new way. His signature dessert, coffee and doughnuts (cappuccino semifreddo, a flavored mousse, topped with steamed milk, accompanied by cinnamon-sugar doughnuts) was thought up one panicked late night at a doughnut shop when he was poor and struggling and desperate to impress the James Beard Foundation at a dinner the next night. It's effete...
...still be wandering in that culinary wilderness between Salisbury steak TV dinners and French foo-foo food smothered in cream. Waters' anniversary meal cost $500 a head and featured lamb, spit roasted over oak and cherrywood fires, served with sauteed chanterelles, and mulberry ice cream cones for dessert. Missed the foodie event of the year? Waters is offering her services on eBay, with proceeds going to her Chez Panisse Foundation for youth and community projects. Bids for a Waters-prepared dinner for eight start at $44,000. The anniversary dinner was a bargain...
...Mexican president at a White House state dinner, an international incident was narrowly avoided. Former first lady Barbara Bush picks up the story from her memoir: "We almost had a real crisis during the dinner for the new president of Mexico, Carlos Salinas. The pastry chef had described the dessert on the menu as 'Mexican Fantasy.' Just as the platters were leaving the kitchen to make a dramatic entrance into the State Dining Room, Laurie Firestone, George's social secretary, noticed that the chef had constructed an adobe house out of edible sweets, filled with ice cream and surrounded...
...graduate was trying to erase about Mexico. So as each platter went by, Laurie plucked off the sleeping boy. It would have been insulting. She saved the day for her country, but the next morning had to face the pastry chef who had labored so long over that glorious dessert...