Word: ducked
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...later the architect of the menu for the national chain California Pizza Kitchen, Ed LaDou was pivotal in elevating the dish to gourmet status. A cult figure to celebrities--who flocked to the Los Angeles Spago for his latest creations--LaDou topped his pies with such unconventional ingredients as duck sausage, smoked salmon, hoisin sauce and barbecued chicken, his signature. The culinary mission? To expose diners to what he called the "infinite spectrum of pizza possibilities." LaDou was 52 and had cancer...
...teau Saint-Martin in Carcassonne, Rodriguez faithfully recreates cassoulet à l'ancienne, with white beans from the village of Mazères, aged ham, pork rind, pig's foot and knuckle meat. And in season, Rodriguez adds (on request) the authentic Carcassonne touch: wild partridge in lieu of duck confit...
...canned there every day. Luckily, at his lively restaurant Au Petit Gazouillis, Alain van Ees Beeck has been cooking Castelnaudary cassoulet from scratch for nearly 20 years. With peppery Montagne Noire sausage, creamy Lauragais beans - slow-cooked with ham hock for a rich, smoky taste - and the farm-raised duck confit famous in Castelnaudary, Van Ees Beeck can boast an authenticity no mass-produced cassoulet can match...
...elegant Le Cantou in Toulouse, agrees, but says to assure the dish's longevity a chef must "adapt these ancient recipes to our modern lifestyle." He adds fresh Toulouse sausage as tradition there demands, but uses a lighter, sweeter Tarbes bean, finely sliced pork rind and leaner duck confit, and trades cassoulet's typical black crust, the result of hours spent in the oven, for a lightly browned one. It's not his grandmother's cassoulet, but you won't need a nap after finishing it, either...
...organization won the support of only 39% of the 3,900 delegates to the party congress, compared with 60% for the populist former Deputy President Jacob Zuma. And this while Zuma, 65, still faces corruption charges in the South African courts. The result leaves President Mbeki a lame duck, and Zuma's supporters expect him to complete Mbeki's humiliation at the next general election in 2009 when they expect he will win the ANC's nomination to succeed Mbeki as President of South Africa. Although Mbeki is constitutionally prevented from seeking a third term, he sought to retain...