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...country, I was intrigued. On your behalf, I decided to taste-test FiveLeaf against the more established Impromptu Gourmet.com Both offer complete gourmet meals that take about half an hour to throw together. By contrast, most fancy-food sites, such as iGourmet.com and DeanandDeluca.com focus on individual treats, like duck pate or Belgian chocolates...
...Impromptu Gourmet meals, also about $70, came in far prettier boxes, and there were only two--one for the breast of duck with a pomegranate molasses glaze ($39.95 for two servings) by Charlie Palmer of New York City's Aureole, the other for the molten chocolate cake with caramel custard sauce ($12.95) from Manhattan's Gramercy Tavern. At first I was a tad overwhelmed by the 10 plastic bags that the ingredients came in. Luckily, assembling the spread turned out to be as easy as painting by numbers. Since Impromptu's meals come refrigerated instead of frozen like FiveLeaf...
...cartoons, starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and a dozen other barnyard thespians, were the star attractions of countless children's Saturday afternoons--and internal lives. But Chuck Jones' Warner Bros. cartoons were more than kid stuff, as we realized long before their creator's death last week, at 89, of congestive heart failure. "We weren't making them for kids or for adults," he often said. "We were making them for ourselves." And, a grateful viewer has to say, for the best part of ourselves...
...Daffy Duck--ah, Daffy! Here was modern man (well, modern mallard) in all his epic scheming and human frustration. He would debate with Bugs on the time of year ("Rabbit season!" "Duck season!") before a shooting accident would require reconstructive plastic surgery. In the immortal Duck Amuck, Daffy valiantly attempts to keep the action on track while the hand of a conniving artist readjusts reality. Jones later said Bugs was the person he wished he could be and Daffy was the person he probably...
...DIED. CHARLES ("CHUCK") JONES, 89, animation director who helped bring to life some of the best-loved cartoon characters from Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes series, including Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny; in Corona del Mar, California. In a career that spanned six decades, Jones made more than 300 animated films, winning two Oscars?one for Best Director in 1965 and an honorary lifetime achievement award in 1996. His autobiography Chuck Amuck was published in 1989. DIED. JOHN THAW, 60, adored by millions of viewers for his portrayal of the curmudgeonly sleuth Inspector Morse on ITV's critically acclaimed eponymous television...