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...allow you to re-create classics like beef Wellington or more modern dishes like seared salmon with balsamic glaze. One disappointment: despite coming from a magazine famed for tempting photos that verge on gastroporn, The Gourmet Cookbook contains no photographs. Instead, the book is illustrated with detailed drawings that explain everything from proper siu mai assembly to the best way to choose and shuck an oyster. It's up to you to provide the mouthwatering visuals...
...there are a few of you out there who would make the argument (which usually includes the crackpot New York Times computer ranking as exhibit A) that computer polls are out of touch with reality and lack the subjectivity necessary to create an applicable ranking system. That reasoning can explain why one poll might place a team way too high or low, but in the face of eight different polls—all of which essentially agree—that contention seems to fall apart...
...there are at least four teams with two losses ahead of the Crimson. In The Sports Network rankings, Harvard finds itself behind one 3-3 team (Maine) and directly in front of two 4-3 teams (Villanova and Appalachian State). Strength of schedule is important, but it can rarely explain away the gap between a program which is undefeated and one which has three losses...
...only highlight, nails a cover of Ray Charles’s “Them That Got,” recorded live at Boston’s Avalon. On the track, Folds addresses the incomplete nature of the song but leaves the listener wishing he might also explain the overall incompleteness of this...
...dalliance! Has so erudite a word ever been used in music? I don’t think I’m the first to have to explain the definition of the Weddoes’ song title, nor do I think I’m the first to notice how Morrissey subversively quips Catullus in the lyrics of “Frankly Mr. Shankly”—“I want to live and I want to love / I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of” is clear homage to Carmina...