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...available on, say, Expedia - a legitimate move designed to draw customers and thus avoid having to pay commissions to the independent agents. However, opponents say, if the Big Five get together, they are likely to offer such fares on their own combination site, thus providing an online petri dish for anticompetitive collusion. At first, say critics, those fares will beat those of their competitors, but once the competitors are forced into submission - either by bankruptcy or "if you can't beat them, join them - the prices will be jacked...
...place of dinner rolls, serve fish raw rather than deep-fried and use soba instead of linguine. Sometimes the influence is as subtle as a drop of lemony ponzu whisked into a vinaigrette; other times it's as in-your-face as mashed potatoes creamed with wasabi, a dish so ubiquitous it's become a clichE. So many of the finest New York chefs work Japanese ingredients or techniques into their cooking that Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and former New York Times restaurant reviewer, says: "I would say there are none that...
...French cuisine is one of technique," he explains. "So I combine the two. I'll take pompano and marinate it in miso, which preserves and enhances the flavor. That's very Japanese. Then I'll turn to French technique in how I cook it." Ono points to his salmon dish: he cures the fish with salt and ginger, adds a pinch of green-tea powder as a counterpoint, then pan roasts it to a crispy finish...
...what Americans do best. Like many Americans, Nish himself is a mix. His ancestry happens to include Japanese (the name Nish is short for Nishimura, changed by his father to duck anti-Japanese sentiment). Growing up in Queens, Nish watched his father and his Maltese mother try to recreate dishes from home. "They always had to substitute ingredients," he recalls. "But that didn't mean the dish had less integrity. It's a practice as old as time; Marco Polo didn't sell spices from new countries with recipe books. It's simply evolution at work...
...help diabetics and people with weight problems modulate their responses to sugar. It might also mean that people like me (who tend to eat perhaps a bit too much sugar) will have a great new excuse around major holidays. Indulgence, in other words, without guilt: "Oooh, pass the candy dish. Don't give me that look, Mom. I can't help it. My genes are crying out for modified white sugars...