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Also designated as Californian because so many of its highly visible practitioners are on the West Coast, this new cooking is an intellectualized, even esoteric style, characterized by the use of fresh native products and seemingly disparate ethnic ingredients and influences in a single dish. In addition to local produce, some of the trademark foods are goat cheese, blue cornmeal, wild mushrooms and game. American wines from a number of states are featured. The preferred fuel for grilling is mesquite, a wood native to the Southwest. Indeed, that part of the country, along with Louisiana and the Carolinas, provides much...
...garden on their grounds. It is now a shimmer of color with orange peppers, green to red tomatoes, emerald zucchini and rose-gold peaches. The Rollinses raise much of their own poultry and serve most meats and fish simply grilled. Their delectable goat cheese and bacon pizza (the best dish sampled at a recent Sunday lunch) looks like a mille-fleurs embroidery, decked out with tomatoes, Swiss chard, orange squash blossoms and flowering purple sage...
...American backyard is a battleground for the television industry. The subject of dispute: 1.5 million satellite dish antennas. These contraptions enable their owners to pick up free the 100-odd TV signals that fly through the sky. This is irksome to programmers transmitting shows to local cable operators via satellite. The industry estimates that it loses up to $700 million a year to commercial owners of dishes and forfeits additional income to private dish owners...
Last week two leading cable services, Home Box Office and Cinemax, which are both owned by Time Inc., acted to stymie this practice. The firms began scrambling their satellite transmissions so that dish owners who try to tune into those cable networks will get nothing but a garble. Fourteen other cable programmers, including MTV, CNN and Showtime, will follow suit. Showtime will start scrambling its signals...
Satellite-dish owners can receive those cable services by buying a device to unscramble the signals (price: $395). In addition, they will have to pay a monthly fee, just like cable viewers. RETAILING The British Are Leaving...