Word: garnishments
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...fortune cookie from one of the better Chinese restaurants, The Joy Luck Club and The Wedding Banquet look beautifully alien. But this is all a trick, to entice you with a vision of novelty. The Western viewer shortly, delightedly, discovers tales of universal savor and significance. Only the garnish is regional...
Women in the speedy suburbs need a guilt-free place to gather. Old-fashioned women's clubs no longer seem to fill the bill. The country-club lunch -- a large helping of chitchat served with a garnish of innuendo -- is too fattening and "unsupportive." Self-employed or with part-time jobs, with homes to run and volunteer work to do, what woman can spare three hours for the afternoon bridge club? "Even though there's been a revolution," says instructor Anne Grossman, a part owner of the Pennington Jazzercise Center, "we women have been taught that you don't waste...
...foot crystal iguana named Ava Gardner dangles over the bar. The restaurant is divided into seven "vacation spots," including a tropical bar complete with a thatched roof. Proprietor Joyce Steins calls the offerings "vacation cuisine, or performance food," with a Tex-Mex accent. An interesting touch: a garnish tray with chopped black olives, onions, pickled carrots, jalapeno peppers, pico de gallo and cilantro is placed on every table. Observes Steins: "Americans crave an alternative to catsup. We place these condiments on the table the same way other restaurants place salt and pepper...
...swizzle stick was aimed at a cherry or an olive and logically used to stir a gin and tonic. But in trendy bars today, as the price of some drinks hovers around five bucks, plastic swizzlers are almost as elaborate as the frozen daiquiris and blue margaritas they garnish. In Los Angeles, New York and Miami, the new adornments come shaped as inch-wide blue whales, 4-in.-long marlins or, even better, mermaids, pink elephants, giraffes, lizards and dinosaurs -- all to be fondled, chewed and traded...
...roses. Still, there were a few honest and tempting candidates that rate consideration for fall shopping lists. The most esoteric and intriguing are caper berries from Spain, which have the same piquant tingle as the smaller, more familiar caper. Attached to their stems, these berries could become the status garnish of the year, perhaps replacing olives or lemon twists in martinis. Finnish bakers have a way with malty, palate-scrubbing sourdough rye crisp breads; the latest welcome entry is Kings Bread, crackling thin and cut into elegantly long and narrow shapes. No less delicious and even more delicate...