Word: eau
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...painfully obvious, even tragic, that our obsession with "what's next" denies us a full appreciation of the special moments that are happening now? John R. Thurston Eau Claire...
...painfully obvious, even tragic, that our obsession with "what's next" denies us a full appreciation of the special moments that are happening now? JOHN R. THURSTON Eau Claire...
...creamy-brown gold. They were designed by creative director Solange Azagury-Partridge, who was inspired when her research team showed her a sample of the "chocolate" gold. "I had been coming up with turns of phrase using bouche (the French word for mouth)," Azagury-Partridge says. "Like l'eau ? la bouche ... mouth-watering. It's all about being edible and delicious, and that color of gold symbolized it perfectly." She turned the specially treated material into whimsical shapes, like a square of chocolate that seems to melt over the finger, and another that looks like it's been nibbled...
...years, Raymond Hilson thought the infection that left him disfigured was just a stroke of very bad luck. Today he thinks it could have been worse. A school-bus driver from Colfax, Wis., Hilson, now 73, underwent heart-bypass surgery in 1994 at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire. At first the procedure seemed to have gone well. But Hilson contracted a severe staph infection. To treat it, doctors "kept cutting back the flesh and bone," he recalls, until his entire sternum was removed, leaving his beating heart visible just under the skin...
...obsessed with the star game. Since winning his second star in 1981, he had shamelessly crusaded for a third. He went some $5 million into debt expanding the 18th century Cote d'Or building in the tiny village of Saulieu. He transformed French cooking with his cuisine a l'eau style, which uses water to bring out flavors and eschews the French penchant for cream and butter. In 1991 Michelin granted him his third star at last. Business shot...