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...grape varieties. Now Riedel has designed a new set of lead-crystal decanters inspired by the bird life of Murano, the Venetian island famed for its glassware. The three decanters boast an avian grace: the Swan's swooping body, the Flamingo's long slender neck and the Paloma's dove-like curves. And as with any Riedel product, they are masterpieces of function as well as form. Exposing wine to oxygen for a few hours before pouring can improve its taste (thanks to a chemical reaction known as aeration), so each of the $480 decanters has been shaped to maximize...
...What really struck me was how fast the space came to life...Over the course of the next two years, I witnessed 826 Valencia become a veritable institution, as well as host to a really lively community of writers, students, and teachers.” Feeney dove headfirst into the program, attending as many workshops as he could while tutoring English as a second language and serving on the student editorial board of Houghton-Mifflin’s Best American Nonrequired Reading List. After high school, Feeney nervously anticipated leaving the program that had become such an important part...
...psyche. Carson Kressley (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) makes over women with body-image issues on Lifetime's How to Look Good Naked. To Kressley, the secret is finding not the right bra size but the right frame of mind, shedding not pounds but psychological baggage. Like a Dove commercial writ large, he gets plus-size women to see that they're sexy through such subtle steps as plastering cheesecake pictures of them on billboards and videotaping the hubba-hubba comments of passersby. Likewise, on the Bravo show Tim Gunn's Guide to Style, the Project Runway host transforms...
...attack percentage of .200.Harvard did not fare any better in games two and three, hitting a meager .105 and .156, respectively.Sophomore Erik Kuld and junior captain Brady Weissbourd shined again, leading the Crimson with 11 kills each. Weissbourd posted a hitting percentage of .429. Senior libero Brian Rapp dove for eight digs, while sophomore setter Gil Weintraub set up for 32 assists.But though a few individuals shined, the Crimson could not overpower its league foe.ST. AMBROSE 3, HARVARD 0Swept for the first time this season, the Crimson was stung by the Fighting Bees...
...through her restaurant stint, McCulla picked up two other night jobs: working for a pastry chef and doing culinary research for the food writer Joan Nathan. For one, she scaled batter and dough, working the 35-pound mixer and experimenting with decorating. For the other, she dove into 14th century French cookbooks looking for the origins of foie gras. (Turns out it may be a descendent of Kosher meat preservation techniques...