Word: flavorings
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...Tehillim should also find popular favor. The most formally conventional piece Reich has yet written, Tehillim (the name means psalms or praises in Hebrew) is in four movements and reflects its composer's interest in cantillation, or chanting of the Scriptures. The music has a strong Middle Eastern flavor with its crisp, jagged rhythms and exotic melodic turns, which compound and pile up on one another until the piece explodes in an irresistible shout of triumph. In Tehillim Reich has added an ecstatic element to his musical vocabulary, and his work has become more poignant and expressive than ever...
That song, quiet, terrifying and seductive, is like a lullaby of doom, but it has the flavor of an old ballad. Indeed, Thompson's apprenticeship as part of the seminal English folk-rock band Fairport Convention provides a kind of melodic continuity with the past. "Folk doesn't mean anything any more," he says. "Our strongest roots are in British and Celtic traditional music. In terms of song structure, we come out of the Scottish ballad form more than anything else. But what we play is rock and roll." Thompson, son of a Scotland Yard detective who played...
...success in the industry is savvy marketing. Though beer drinkers like to boast of the distinctive flavor of their chosen brands, the truth is, as Donald Rice, an analyst with the investment firm of Blunt Ellis & Loewi points out, the products really do not differ from one another all that much in taste or ingredients. Most breweries focus mainly on the same group of customers, that 20% of American beer drinkers who consume eight out of every ten cans sold. These prime customers are both white-and blue-collar workingmen between the ages of 21 and 40, many of whom...
...make their beers even smoother and easier to swallow, many American brewers have been skimping on the use of hops, a perennial vine of the mulberry family. Hops are used to give beer its distinctive and some times bitter flavor, and during the past ten years U.S. brewers have cut back by about 15% on the ingredient in nearly all their brands. Explains Leo Bernstein, vice president and director of laboratories for Schwarz Services International, a Connecticut consulting firm that works with breweries around the world: "Lighter beer was a marketing decision when American brewers wanted to enlarge the market...
Only the mozzarella substitute in the pizza had a distinctively Soviet flavor; it was suluguni, a cheese from Soviet Georgia that used to be one of Joseph Stalin's favorite snacks...