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...taste seems worth the centuries-long wait. The quaking pudding, a light, set-milk dessert, probably hasn't wobbled this deliciously since King Charles II beckoned Nell Gwynne to try a spoonful. The spring menu will feature a tangy lemon salad made from an antique variety of the fruit and a tart of bread-an ancestor of today's treacle tart. The panache with which the poster boy for futuristic food serves up these venerable dishes shows that while history repeats itself, Blumenthal sure doesn't. www.thehindsheadhotel.com
...taste seems worth the centuries-long wait. The quaking pudding, a light, set-milk dessert, probably hasn't wobbled this deliciously since King Charles II beckoned Nell Gwynne to try a spoonful. The spring menu will feature a tangy lemon salad made from an antique variety of the fruit and a tart of bread - an ancestor of today's treacle tart. The panache with which the poster boy for futuristic food serves up these venerable dishes shows that while history repeats itself, Blumenthal sure doesn't. www.thehindsheadhotel.com
...central administration’s traditional concern for undergraduate education and life, and, no doubt, it caused its share of problems. (I remember, for example, when my roommates and I dropped an orange down the ventilation shaft from our suite on the third floor—the fruit fell to the ground floor, where it rotted, thereby eliciting a gentle but firm warning from President Rudenstine’s office never to do it again...
Much of the world remains unbanked. China's 1.3 billion people, for example, carry about 10 million credit cards, compared with 1.2 billion in the U.S. In Mexico only 1 in 5 people has a bank account. Rising middle classes in developing countries are low-hanging fruit for multinational financial-services companies. "In the next 25 years, you'll see economic wealth distributed more evenly with the world's population," says John Bond, HSBC's outgoing chairman. "Demand for financial services in emerging markets is going to grow consistently and probably grow faster than it will in the more mature...
Locals in Trinidad and Tobago call it "the big lime"-Caribbean slang for a serious shindig. But the national semifinals of Panorama, an annual music festival that this year takes place on Feb. 12, serve up something headier than fruit juice. The exuberant competition pits around 30 professional steel bands of 60 to 120 members against each other in front of a crowd of 15,000. Fans sing, cheer their favorite bands, and catch up with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens...