Word: ginger
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rage. IT was on the tongues of students in the dining halls and IT made the front pages of the nation’s newspapers. But no one knew what IT actually was. All we knew was that those in the know called it “Ginger...
Like the Rubik’s cube and sea monkeys, Ginger commanded the nation’s short but intense attention span in the way only a fad could. Ginger was said to have the potential to transform the world. To date, Ginger has transformed very little. People never found out what Ginger was, and soon it disappeared from the radar screen...
Some said it was a hover scooter, others claimed it was a super-efficient engine capable of revolutionizing urban transportation. Only an elite circle of America’s technology pantheon was let in on the secret. Apple Computers founder Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that Ginger is so remarkable, cities will be built around...
America’s love affair—or one night stand, as the case may be—with Ginger began when Inside.com got wind of a $250,000 book deal between the Harvard Business School Press (HBSP) and superstar inventor Dean Kamen along with his ghostwriter, journalist Steve Kemper. Kamen was so secretive about his invention that HBSP had to sign on to the deal without even knowing what it was Kamen had come up with. All HBSP had to go on was the effusive praise of techno-luminaries like William H. Gates IV, class...
Keller impresses without trying too damn hard, like some other chefs. He doesn't try to shock with weird juxtapositions, as in Tabasco ice cream. You never think, "Great sauce," at the French Laundry. You think, "Man, that sauce tastes more like ginger-carrot than eating a pound of ginger and carrots." The epiphanies come from finally figuring out exactly what certain foods are supposed to taste like. He refuses to fool you into thinking what's in front of you is more than just food. "I remember my first experience at a three-star restaurant in France...