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Gone is the era when a meal in a department store meant a scoop of chicken salad on a plastic tray in a room reminiscent of your grandmother's conservatory. These days, shoppers at Selfridges in London are feasting on roast duck, salmon ravioli and pumpkin chili cakes in the store's Premier restaurant, which has a nice view over bustling Oxford Street. At Harrods, the clientele in the Georgian Restaurant is tucking into terrine of foie gras with cèpes, fillet of red mullet and wild game pudding whipped up by a chef who used to work...
This time last year planning for University land in Allston was advancing at a snail’s pace. Neil L. Rudenstine was the lame-duck president and president-elect Lawrence H. Summers was still a passive listener making his first rounds of introduction...
With what I've got here, I can do anything I want. In a small kitchen, you make things do double or even triple duty. If you're making two-way duck, let's say, and you don't have a roasting pan, you use a frying pan. If you don't have a quiche pan, you can always manufacture one out of foil or make the pie free-form...
...death the killer delivers is gruesome. The poison?a few spoonfuls of purple crystal granules of carbofuran, an insecticide, mixed with chicken or duck meat?acts fast, attacking the nervous system much like sarin gas. In minutes, the dogs are drooling and their muscles begin to twitch. Within an hour, they are violently convulsing. If the poison cannot be expunged, they die of shock and respiratory failure. "They are absolutely frantic," says veterinarian Lloyd Kenda. "I'd rather never see another case again...
...three-year old crowd, but that’s no reason not to enjoy this bronze procession. Based on the characters in the children’s book Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey, the statues were cast in 1987 by Nancy Schon. In the book, a mother duck saves her babies from the dangers of the Charles by moving their quarters to the lovely Public Garden and a nice policeman helps her. Visit for a moment of respite...