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...adjectives lavished on a dish can be as important as the names of the ingredients. What would you rather eatplain grilled chicken or flame-broiled chicken with a garlic rub? Scrambled eggs or farm-fresh eggs scrambled in butter? "Think 'flavors and tastes,'" Rapp says, repeating a favorite mantra. "Words like crunchy and spicy give the customer a better idea of what something will be like." Longer, effusive descriptions should be reserved for signature items. Especially the profitable ones...
...State Department service—shows a consistent pattern. “He tries to examine injustices wherever they occur and to encourage those with the power and authority to address them in every way,” Ogletree says. “He’s not a flame-thrower but a crusader for civil rights and equality...
...Knitting is another passion of hers. During the past winter, Scott participated in the Olympics’ knitting competition. Knitting Olympians chose a project that was “an achievable challenge” that they began at opening ceremonies and had to complete by the time the Olympic flame is extinguished.Her late partner’s mother taught her to knit, Scott says.“There’s a great deal of pleasure when working with yarn; it ends up being something more than a pile of paper. There’s a whole world inside...
...cared what commenters said, I'd kill myself." In the high-octane non-stop flame war that is the political blogosphere, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga knows how to get attention. He's kidding, of course. We're talking about the rhetorical excesses that can spill out of the impassioned debate that takes place on his creation, DailyKos.com, the world's most popular political blog...
...expect. The machine-gun-fast hipster aphorisms I was prepared for: "No one pops a wheelie for their entire life" (on his career); "The fish stinks from the head down" (on leadership); "I don't do blow. What would I do on cocaine? Start barking and head-butting people? Flame would shoot off me. It would be game over." But every so often he would pause and look over to the side. I figured he was waiting for me to catch up in my notebook, but he would do it even when I wasn't writing. Jeremy Piven was contemplating...