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...companies looking to make cuts in the grips of recession, the appetizer, entree, and dessert may be the first things to go. The company holiday party, once an obligatory, lavish celebration, has become “gauche” in a time of pink slips and downsized bonuses, said desserterie Finale co-Founder and President Paul D. Consorti. And Cambridge’s high-end eateries are feeling the pinch. “We had a company, that will remain nameless, cancel their annual holiday party because the week before they had laid off a bunch of employees...
...University officials cheered last summer when they leased property only a few blocks away from the Corner to Finale Dessert Company, but residents have come to see the building—which contains no retail outlet and only houses the company’s central pastry kitchen—as an example of Harvard’s failure to deliver on promises to revitalize the neighborhood...
...paintings. Everyone dines at a glass table with a sink underneath. The servers bring your meal atop a mini toilet bowl (quite convenient, as it brings the food closer to your mouth), you sip drinks from your own plastic urinal (a souvenir), and soft-swirl ice cream arrives for dessert atop a dish shaped like a squat toilet. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...less understood or diagnosed. It is an unhealthy relationship with food, often characterized by an obsession with nutrition, constant dieting and perpetual dissatisfaction with body image. You’ve seen or have been victim to its various incarnations—obsessively going to the gym, binging at the dessert table, constantly strategizing about caloric intake, absurd one-fruit-an-hour diets, screensavers that say, “Diet or die,” Facebook notes that cry out for help, a sudden and inexplicable switch to veganism, etc. While anorexia is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual...
Task force member Harry Mattison criticized Harvard for failing to pursue tenants that fulfill a vision of attracting businesses and revitalizing the neighborhood. He noted that last summer, the University leased one of its buildings just off of Western Ave. to Finale Dessert Company—for use not as an eatery, but as a central pastry kitchen...