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...Price's fine new book to be one of my pallbearers, I might be O.K. with that. The novel is alive because writers like Price are crafting books like Samaritan (Knopf; 379 pages), about a guy who discovers the hard way what a complicated transaction charity can be. This is the third work that Price has set in Dempsy, his fictional New Jersey town of blue-collar strivers, scuttling young men on the make and always, always, the police. He discovered the book's themes in himself when he was doing the street research about cops and crack dealers...
...than 7,000 types of apples in the world, only about 100 kinds are grown commercially on any significant scale in the U.S. The most popular variety has traditionally been the crunchy Red Delicious, which accounts for about 40% of apple sales in this country. Originally it was a fine, tasty fruit, but as it grew more popular, it began to be mass produced more for looks and hardiness than for flavor...
...cold champagne. For those who can afford to shell out $450 for a 125-gram tin, these precious salted sturgeon eggs are a taste of the true Western high life?a chance to indulge like the Russian czars and czarinas, who feasted regularly on fine caviar...
...beluga ban wouldn't affect Asian restaurants and food stores: they can always buy from European suppliers. Hong Kong's House of Fine Foods, the territory's largest caviar importer, says its customers are already content with such lesser grades as osetra and sevruga caviar, which come from the same region as beluga. "We do get requests for beluga," says managing director Gephard Scherrer, "but out of the 1.5 tons we import, only about 80 kilograms is beluga." Strict controls started in 1998 have already boosted caviar prices. Tokyo had several specialty caviar restaurants before the Japanese economy deflated. Only...
...French playwright Molière wrote that “it is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.” Over three centuries and several thousand miles away, the Harvard students who are bombarded daily with a plethora of fine words—including, from time to time, Molière’s own—are still waiting for administrators to digest his message...