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Another food category in which high-octane flavors can be everything is Latino cuisine. Americans raised on the pasty fare of gentrified Mexican restaurants may know little about the fine and fiery food available south of the Rio Grande, but flavorists do--particularly when it comes to chile peppers. The spiciness in food is measured in Scoville units. A typical fast-food taco may reach 150 on the Scoville scale. IFF flavorists have developed chile essences that climb to 1 million. One drop, the scientists boast, can heat a giant pot--perfect when you're marketing to an audience unafraid...
Certainly not everybody needs or wants to know about the humectants in snacks. Scientific reductionism is fine in astronomy or physics, but it's another thing entirely when your dinner is involved. There are few things more intimate than the preparation of food--an ancient, imprecise craft built on pinches and dashes and tasting things at the stove. What are old-style cooks to do when this quiet craft is elbowed aside by an industry in which flavor concentrations are measured in parts per billion and companies like IFF can sell, without irony, a product called Fleximint, "a tool...
...Kids can sulk for a week or two" after moving, says Ford. But before too long, "most kids will be fine"?especially once they've made new friends. The solution is to accept that your children are not cultural facsimiles of you or your partner but part of a privileged group growing up without frontiers...
Although it finished 54 shots behind the champion Princeton Tigers, the Crimson put forth a fine effort on the tough layout at Yale University Golf Course...
...equivalent match at this Cup, not least because they recognize that the standard of rugby has soared. "So many countries are strong this time," says Reuben Thorne, captain of New Zealand's mighty All Blacks team. "Whoever wins will be a bloody great side." The All Blacks have two fine wingers in their Cup squad, but they'd still love to have a healthy Jonah Lomu, who - as the most devastating ball-runner the game had seen - ignited the '95 Cup in South Africa and put rugby in a spotlight that hasn't dimmed. Since the game's birth...