Word: gourmet
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...Americans' ice cream palates go gourmet, even traditional formulations are taking on a more sophisticated edge. Neuhaus, the Belgian chocolatier, has brought its superpremium ice cream to the U.S. for the first time, in the form of Snobinettes Glace, which are chocolate shells filled with ultrarich vanilla, coffee or chocolate ice cream. An ice cream and sorbet maker in Dallas called Out of a Flower uses herbs, teas and edible flowers to create its exotic flavors, which include Tequila & Cilantro, Rosemary & Black Peppercorn and Texas Goat Fromage Blanc & Roasted Hazelnuts...
...Klara, and maybe swim a bit along the 300-m beach of the Maschsee, an artificial lake completed in 1936 as part of the Nazis' efforts to put the unemployed to work. The closest he'll get to his beloved Italian food could be at Hanover's festival of gourmet Italian chefs. Berlusconi's laconic reaction to Schröder's decision to stay at home: "Too bad for him." Well, too bad for everybody. What has been demonstrated in this ridiculous affair is that opportunistic politicians can still make political hay out of ugly national stereotypes. Berlusconi finally, reluctantly...
...cubicles. Face-to-face meetings have become conference calls; voice-to-voice phone calls are all too often abandoned for impersonal e-mails. And before you know it, for many workers, the hours from nine to five are most often spent practically alone. The take-out services from gourmet cafes have literally fed this culture of anti-socials so that now not even the daily special in the cafeteria can entice colleagues out of their cubicles. Only the elevator...
...building), pause for a beverage in the lounge with about a dozen other passengers, speed through security and stroll 25 feet across the tarmac to a luxuriously appointed Embraer business jet. Slide into one of the 16 spacious leather seats (there are no middle seats) and dig into a gourmet meal. Then land at another convenient, smaller airport: Chicago's Midway. The fare: $1,500 round trip, about the same last-minute fare you would pay the better-known outfits with hubs in Chicago, American Airlines and United Airlines...
...novice chef, Katzen also warns against blindly venturing into restaurant cooking classes. “Be very careful that the class is not elitist and gourmet,” she says. “You don’t want to listen to two hours of wine pairings.” Katzen herself says that, from the vantage point of a prolific cookbook author (she now has over five million books in print), her cooking gets more simplified...