Word: gourmet
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...drawn from the ranks of Australia's last generation of drovers - will do the full stint. City slickers join for a piffling five days at a time, and the conditions are hardly onerous. Tents are carpeted, there's a portable bar and library, meals include hot buffet breakfasts and gourmet dinners, and bathrooms and flushing toilets are housed in two trucks following the herd. Crocodile Dundee types might not approve - but who's telling? For more information, visit cattledrive.com.au...
...Cores, Moral Reasoning, upon thee. Unfortunately, it’s often righteously boring.In theory, Moral Reasoning courses will help you learn to deal with tough ethical questions, and face up to quandaries that enable you to hone your moral compass. Though the MR menu provides a seemingly gourmet spread of professors, readings, and course titles, reality is often more rump roast than filet mignon. The oft-bemoaned core is a product of the 1978 Core Curriculum report, written under the auspices of then (and now) University President Derek C. Bok. The disco era’s original spawn...
...Horsemeat is considered a delicacy for many foreign palates. But Americans raise horses for racing, work or companionship, and polls show a large majority of the public finds slaughtering them for a gourmet dinner to be repugnant. "It's one of the most inhumane, brutal and shady practices going on in the United States today," complains Republican Rep. John Sweeney, who sponsored the measure to ban the sale and transport of horses to the slaughterhouses. Sweeney's congressional district includes the Saratoga Springs harness racing track...
...Today the farm-to-table ideal has spread across the nation. In its July issue, Gourmet magazine ran a feature on what it cleverly called ?plow-to-plate? restaurants from Milwaukee to Maine. These aren?t just places that source their ingredients from local farmers, as Waters and many others have urged for years. Rather, these restaurateurs actually operate farms themselves. For instance, Dan Kary, who owns Cinque Terre in Portland, Maine, farms two and a half acres that provide about 40% of the restaurant?s vegetables. On the day I spoke to him a few weeks...
Explorations of these personas fill up much of Reichl’s memoirs, “Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise,” making them more like a literary pupu platter than a gourmet multi-course meal...