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...keenest when it came to legal battles or money woes, but he tried, even when his club was taken away from him, to live up to what that "OMFUG" stands for in CBGB's formal name: "Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers." Kristal defined a gourmandizer as a voracious eater of music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CBGB's Hilly Kristal: An Original to the End | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

Design can sometimes seem pretty mundane?how hard is it to change the shape of a coffee mug??but often the most random life experiences can inspire grand ideas. Witness the way John Mackey, a six-time college dropout, changed his diet (from meat eater to vegetarian) and in doing so envisioned the nation's first natural-food market, which he eventually built into Whole Foods, a $9 billion business that has revolutionized the food industry. Similarly and against terrific odds, inspiration is what propelled ceramicist Eva Zeisel out of prison, where she had been confined on false accusations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Always Looking Ahead | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

...push through a bun resembled a Mack truck trying to enter a home garage. Two visits to an acupuncturist in the city, painkillers and anti-inflammatory pills lessened the pain - but not the shame - of his current condition. "I'm very embarrassed as an athlete and as a competitive eater that I didn't take care of my body and that I'm at this point now," Kobayashi said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Requiem for a Samurai of Hot Dogs | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

Toward the end of the movie, Remy whips up his specialty for Anton Ego (voiced by Peter O'Toole), a food critic so severe he is known to trembling chefs throughout Paris as the Grim Eater. Ego puts a forkful in his mouth, and in a flash, fond memories--of a loving mother giving him delicious food--play across his face. As Bird describes the moment, "His eyes drift down toward the dish, like, 'Is it this? It is this. I love food again. This is what I was missing.'" A taste of something wonderful can humanize almost any misanthrope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Savoring Pixar's Ratatouille | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...Thanks to the genius of ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,’ it took a little bit of work to explain to people that I am neither a cartoon character nor a monkey brain-eater,” Penn explains, laughing.He credits Nair with breaking some of the barriers that had previously kept Indians out of mainstream American cinema.“She was one of my role models growing up and really inspired me to go into filmmaking,” he says...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kal Penn Finds Cultural Roots, Turns Serious in ‘Namesake’ | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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