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...dessert, Via Matta lightens up the ubiquitous Tiramisu ($9) with delicious results. The highlight, though, was something the restaurant calls “Marscarp-Oreos,” a small bowl of chocolate shortbread cookies accompanied by a dish of sweet mascarpone cheese...
...Franklin respond? She started by committing what might have been political suicide. She cut 1,000 jobs from the city payroll and got the city council to approve a 1% sales-tax hike and a 50% bump to property taxes. To prove she could take it as well as dish it out, she laid off half her staff and cut her own salary...
Every great athlete fascinates Rose. Once he used to sit up all night in the car listening to West Coast games; now he keeps his satellite dish as hot as a wok. He peppers his discourses on his own records with Richie Allen's homers and Jim Bunning's shutouts. Rose is no more self-centered than a fried egg. "Sometimes I get the feeling that everyone thinks I spend all of my time working out statistics," he says defensively. As a matter of fact, First Wife Karolyn testifies, "There never was a morning when I didn't see Pete...
Rosenblum’s attempt to find and analyze the best chocolate even takes him south of the border. In Mexico, he watches as “mole mama” Martina Tlacoxolat makes mole, a thick chili-and-chocolate sauce that garnishes a traditional chicken dish. Just as Europeans debate over whether the best chocolate is made in France, Belgium, or Switzerland, Mexicans argue over which region has the best mole poblano, with Puebla and Oaxaca the primary contenders...
...melted cheese and spices and encased in a batter-fried poblano pepper. The chiles rellenos de pollo mole ($13.95) is where chocolate puts in an appearance. (Quick tutorial for those who haven’t had mole: it’s a sauce made with chocolate that gives the dish a smokily sweet undertaste—and like cilantro, you either love it or hate it.) The verdict—well, I’ll just say my companion risked her Lentian vow against sweets to nab repeated tastes of this dish...