Word: gourmets
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...Alaska Club is one of thousands of fitness centers that now employ professional chefs who have moved gym food from granola and smoothies to gourmet cuisine. As gyms compete for customers, these in-house restaurants are being seen as amenities that can keep members happy as well as healthy. Since 1992, the number of health clubs with restaurants has nearly doubled, and 11% of the 25,300 clubs in the U.S. have sit-down dining facilities. Many of these upscale food operations have become income generators. John Marchetti, the Alaska Club's business manager, says that since his club upgraded...
Chase’s first brush with gourmet cooking came at age 13, when she served as cook at the Nantucket home of her aunt and uncle. For several months, she furnished the family with three meals a day. She also catered their weekly dinner parties using ingredients that had been grown locally...
Chase’s passion for cooking even overshadowed her senior thesis, “Chaos as a Form of Theory.” She remembers her formidable stack of thesis research “paled in comparison” to the even more impressive pile of Gourmet magazines lying nearby in her room...
Chase says she envisions herself more as a guardian of old American cultural traditions than as a revolutionary in the gourmet world of cooking...
...Marsh store in Fort Wayne, Ind. And her reason for avoiding the local Wal-Mart--"it's too chaotic"--could be the industry's salvation. Kroger is trying to emulate the swanky Whole Foods scene in a few of its 2,500 stores by adding in-store chefs, gourmet meals and upscale wines. Likewise, Safeway, which is making a huge push into quality perishables in general and prepared foods in particular, is doing so with new woodlike floors and softer lighting. "The feedback we're getting from consumers is that it's just a less stressful place to be," Burd...