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...mention in most Boston guidebooks. I looked. It appears in “Rough Guide to Boston,” “Fodor’s 2009 Boston,” “The Boston Globe Guide to Boston,” “Phantom Gourmet Guide to Boston’s Best Restaurants,” “Frommer’s Irreverent Guide to Boston,” and in “Signpost Guide New England.” It is also mentioned in “The Complete Idiot?...
Harvard has been ranked as the #1 school to become a snob, the #2 school to meet a future spouse, the #2 school to make connections, #2 for "gourmet cuisine," (what?) the #3 school where you will go broke, #4 prettiest campus, and #6 most politically active in the recent rankings released by College-Admission-Essay.com. Somehow Harvard doesn't make "The Top 10 Schools That Are More Intense than a Pressure Cooker," while Duke and Stanford are ranked...
This year's event promises to be even more exclusive than in the past: the "Eliot Bridge Enclosure," a "controlled-access hospitality tent" requiring either a $60 one-day pass or a $100 two-day pass, provides "early morning coffee and breakfast items and a delicious gourmet buffet luncheon including two gratis bar drink tickets." Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar is reportedly providing this "distinctive dining experience...
Because of its place in the Condé Nast family, Gourmet had been able to attract fashion and perfume ads when times were good. But as the economy tightened, non-food advertisers didn't see the magazine as vital to their campaigns, while packaged-good companies didn't see a luxury book as key either, and travel advertising, another of its pillars, fell away...
Navigating all that while dealing with the woes of the magazine industry will probably be even trickier than the Thanksgiving recipe Gourmet has in its final issue...