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What, you ask, is a mini macaron? It's a bite-sized version of its larger cousin, a delicate but explosive cream-filled, pastel-colored meringue cookie as cheery as an Easter egg and sweet as a stolen kiss. It's an indulgence, a passion, then an obsession. In other words, it's the ultimate French confection. Paris is divided into two camps: those who hold that the best mini macarons come from Ladurée, and those that swear by Pierre Hermé. This is a somewhat academic debate, since Hermé worked at Ladurée before opening...
...Dalby is clearly an expert forager, with a love for digging at the roots of things, be they customs or words. She tells us that it was a German moon goddess, Eostre, who gave her name to both Easter and to the female hormone estrogen, and she explains that in old China, a hawk and a dove were considered to be the same bird, seen in a different light. She retells the poignant story of the compiler of the 16,000-page Great Chinese-Japanese Classical Dictionary, who saw the proofs of 12 of his 13 volumes reduced...
...eating at the restaurant as a “transcendent experience.” He added that he was not concerned about the eatery’s light business during its opening day, attributing it to Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day nor’easter. Bernstein said the restaurant will work to become a “partner in the neighborhood” by donating a portion of its earnings to the Cambridge Family and Children’s Service, a local non-profit which provides adoption, foster-care, and counseling services to needy families...
...Harvard women’s tennis team escaped the Nor’easter that pounded New England this weekend to the warm and sunny climes of south Florida only to suffer a similar battering at the hands of Miami and Florida International, falling by identical scores of 7-0. The Crimson was without senior Julia Forgie, who remained in Cambridge to finish her thesis, and sophomore Beier Ko, who was absent due to illness. Undermanned, Harvard forfeited both a doubles and a singles match, giving their opponents an advantage before a serve was even struck. With the losses, the Crimson...
This symbiosis will continue long after the documentary airs, the blog wars die out and the godless TV networks air their Easter specials, which is probably just as well for everyone, including James Cameron. If he really managed to destroy Christianity, his most enraged enemies wouldn't be saying Mass at the Vatican. They'd be doing lunch...