Word: flavorfully
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Like their teenage counterparts, victims of midlife eating disorders tend to suffer from low self-esteem and perfectionism, according to those who treat them. But the triggers for their problem have a distinctly midlife flavor--divorce, an empty nest or the death of a spouse, parent or child. About half those affected are women who struggled with food-related issues in their youth. "This generation of women was brought up to be superwomen, and whether it's the supermom or the woman with the incredible job, both are expected to be beautiful," says Kearney-Cooke, a co-author of Change...
...bottles of wine is tainted--or "corked," in the oenophile's argot--making it smell musty and taste bitter. Now French scientists have come up with a kit called Dream Taste. You dip a copolymer shaped like a bunch of grapes into the wine, where it absorbs the flavor-spoiling molecules...
...small plastic hand pump to create a partial vacuum inside the bottle. RESERVE ($190) introduces a layer of inert gas over the wine, keeping air out and wine drinkable for six days. The PEK WINE STEWARD ($219), right, uses inert gas and temperature control to keep wine full of flavor for up to two weeks...
...more enthralling in a group setting. At Chocolate Springs Café in Lenox, Mass., connoisseurs nibble on feather-light champagne cognac truffles and fresh garden-mint chocolates while relaxing to live piano music on weekends. At Moonstruck Chocolate Café in Beaverton, Ore., patrons attuned to the nuances of flavor order several pieces of chocolate with varying percentages of cacao beans. While the confections and connoisseurship may be less rarefied at the more mainstream shops, they too encourage customers to linger. At Ethel's, which promotes itself as "a place to chocolate and chitchat," patrons can chew the butterfat over the chocolate...
Seeing as it was my first time on the West Coast (and my first time west of the Mississippi, for that matter), my first day in town gave the flavor of the city: I got ankle-deep in the Pacific, breathed in the palm trees and the smog, and got stuck in brutal traffic...