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...different factors Micheale Kester has to juggle when she invents your next scoop of ice cream. Right now she's not as concerned about flavor or texture--although those are important--as she is about architecture. Kester, a food technologist in the Burbank, Calif., labs of ice cream giant Baskin-Robbins, has been fooling around with an idea for a flavor she calls Cinnamon Bun, but first she has to make sure the stuff will hold together. If you're not careful with the size and number of your chips, nuts or bun bits--what the ice cream techies call...
...flavorists do--particularly when it comes to chile peppers. The spiciness in food is measured in Scoville units. A typical fast-food taco may reach 150 on the Scoville scale. IFF flavorists have developed chile essences that climb to 1 million. One drop, the scientists boast, can heat a giant pot--perfect when you're marketing to an audience unafraid of taste...
...closest Larson, 53, has come to working lately--and he didn't much like it, or stick to his planned fall 2002 deadline--was to compile every cartoon he ever syndicated into the giant, two-volume hardcover boxed set The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994 (Andrews McMeel; 1,245 pages). He spent three years perfecting it, redoing many of the eyeballs, unhappy with the way they were digitally transferred. Picking up the collection with pride, Larson says, "I just like to feel the weight. It's a 20-pounder, Mom! It can alternate as a murder weapon." He says there...
...University toxicologist Brent Morgan, who co-wrote the Emergency Medicine study, has seen health problems like disorientation, anemia, kidney failure and ulcers. He says colleagues in other Southern cities have noted a similar uptick in moonshine-related maladies. But supplies seem as healthy as ever. Virginia officials busted a giant 30,000-gal. operation in May, and Georgia law-enforcement officials have shut down at least four stills in the past year. --By Greg Land
...This is a man who was a giant academic, an incredible respected leader of the faculty and who had a larger than life presence...