Word: duckness
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...first glance, the Round Robin seems typically stuffy. Suits gather at the circular bar and the ambiance is, well, avian: mallard duck colors, dark, paneled wood and forest green walls. The place oozes elegant opulence, a throwback to the rich history of its home at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, the "residence of presidents." A steady stream of mainstay figures in American history - Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bill Clinton, Aretha Franklin, Elizabeth Taylor and Barack Obama, to name a few - have tread the halls of the Willard and frequented the Round Robin...
...recent crisis to hit the country - the economic crisis - and said he scorned the idea of the "burden of office." "Why'd the financial collapse have to happen on my watch?" he mocked. "It's just pathetic, isn't it, self-pity?" (Read "Bush's Last Days: The Lamest Duck...
Read "Bush's Last Days: The Lamest Duck...
...younger siblings to the roof of our 14-story building. We head up there whenever we can, even if people say it makes us easy targets. We climb 13 flights of stairs just to stand and look out on Gaza and breathe in 15 minutes of air before we duck inside again. "Burning City," the children call it. Columns of smoke rise from various locations in the distance, changing the color of the sky and the sun. The entire landscape is transformed. We can make out the locations of several of the many public, residential and landmark buildings that have...
...trend probably started in 2006, when molecular gastronomist Heston Blumenthal began dazzling deep-pocketed diners at the U.K.'s Fat Duck with bacon-and-egg ice cream. (That same year, when two contestants whipped up bacon ice cream on Bravo's Top Chef, Tom Colicchio turned to his fellow judges and wondered how long until Ben & Jerry's came out with one.) But the real mass-market shift started two summers ago, when Vosges Haut-Chocolat put out the $7.50 Mo's Bacon Bar. "I was a vegetarian at the time," says owner Katrina Markoff, who trained at Le Cordon...