Word: gourmets
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Remy, a common rat with a gourmet's soul, has made his way to the kitchen of the once-great Paris restaurant Gusteau's. Here, the new Pixar movie Ratatouille tells us, he will be able to create superb dishes--if only he can find a human ally. His desperate choice: a callow scullery lad named Linguini. Remy, in the logic of animated features, understands the boy's words, but Linguini can't speak rat; so the two communicate through Remy's nods and brow furrowings. Somehow, the kid gets the message. "I can't cook ..." Linguini says...
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...final pieces he wrote for the New York Times before he died last October, celebrated reporter and U.S.-based gourmet R.W. Apple Jr. listed 10 restaurants worth boarding a plane to visit. When my editors at TIME recently asked for ideas for stories on food and the way it influences societies around the world, I ambitiously suggested I visit Apple's favorites. Such a device would allow me to write about our obsession with finding great food in obscure places, I explained, while celebrating the life of one of the best writers on food of recent years-a global connoisseur...
...rare hoya plant. "The scent reminds you of dark chocolate, with olfactory notes rarely found in flowers," Kaiser says. He has amassed more than 2,500 natural scents over the years and has reconstituted more than 450. To create authentic flavorings, Givaudan's researchers go on "taste treks" to gourmet restaurants and popular street stands. On a recent trip to a hot-pot restaurant in China's Sichuan province, they sampled a spicy noodle soup that they hope to reproduce in bouillon...
Jaime L. Kubik, a manager at the Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe, located adjacent to the Greenhouse, said he thought it was “very unfortunate that there are a lot of independent shops that can’t manage to stay in business right now because they can’t afford to pay the high rent...