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These inventions would never come to be, and that was probably for the best. Nothing is more shimmeringly beautiful than the next big thing in our imagination; nothing is sadder than the next big thing become reality. Remember "Ginger"? The much buzzed-about transportation device was supposed to revolutionize society and change how cities were built. Was it a jet pack? A teleporter? No, it was the Segway scooter, a goofily innocuous machine that seems to have been designed solely so George W. Bush could tumble off one, as he did this summer in Maine. From dreams of rocket...
...Steve Hersch has his way, they'll reach for a more mature kind of soda like his. Hersch, 37, is the founder of GuS (Grown up Soda), a new line of less-sweet but intensely flavored sodas such as Dry Valencia Orange, Dry Meyer Lemon and Extra Dry Ginger Ale. "When you grow up, your tastes change," he says. "You want drinks that are less sweet and more flavorful." And he's not the only soft-drink entrepreneur chasing this market. Tommy's Naked Sodas are all-natural beverages made with cane sugar (as opposed to the corn syrup that...
...peanut butter, only 60 million are children. New all-natural flavored peanut butters from Peanut Butter & Co. and Peanut Betters are making PB&Js more than kid stuff. Flavors like Cinnamon Currant or Dark Chocolate Dreams are great with fruit, while savory blends like Rosemary Garlic and Thai Ginger & Red Pepper can also be used in recipes. --L.McL...
French food emporium Fauchon also relies on herbal and floral notes for its Rose Petal, Toulouse Violet, Raspberry Chili Pepper and Mandarin Orange-Ginger ice creams. At New York City's Il Laboratorio del Gelato, Jon F. Snyder, who grew up working in his grandmother's Carvel franchise, makes 75 rotating varieties of intensely flavored ice creams and sorbets with selections like Lavender, Rice, Green Grape and a Black Plum that tastes fruitier than the actual fruit. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...footprints of foreigners who went there with the glorious dream of ruling a kingdom in the forest, like the hero of a Conrad tale. Most of them end up hustling condos in Phuket or Bali, or eventually head home for a real job. Warwick Purser, a tall, lanky, ginger-color man from Sydney, has made the dream a reality. Seven years ago, when the peripatetic entrepreneur established Out of Asia, Indonesia's largest exporter of handcrafted goods, he set up shop in the village of Tembi, half an hour's drive from Yogyakarta. Today, Purser rules as the beneficent panjandrum...