Word: gourmets
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Keller's joint, the French Laundry in California's Napa Valley, has been called one of the top restaurants in America by Esquire, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, USA Today and Wine Spectator. He's earned the title the hard way, by, as he says, "getting the best ingredients and not screwing it up." He spends much of his time developing relationships with micropurveyors--a commercial pilot who grows hearts of palm, a scholar who Fed-Exes her Maine lobsters to him. Then he focuses on the details: squeezing the moisture out of fish skin; steeping a lobster so he can cook...
...accidentally” cutting herself with glass. But she was only one of many worn out stars this summer; actor Ben Affleck and comedian Paula Poundstone are currently inhabiting the same Malibu rehab center, where check-ins are free to leave, and are rehabilited with gourmet dinners and field trips to the spa, for the measly price of $33,850 a month...
...least $309 million. Corti says cost-cutting measures at LTU are in place to return it to profitability by 2003. Swissair, the airline, has also been losing money ($110 million in 2000), even with load factors above the industry average. Swissair does have some businesses like Gate Gourmet, an airline caterer, that are profitable and downturn-resistant. With the worldwide industry in descent, it could do with a few more. But for now, the company has a new management in place, a new business strategy and a new name - or, rather, an old one. Symbolically, Conti dropped the unevocative SAirgroup...
...food, folks and fun, along with additional alliterative assurances at the Malibu drying-out center of choice, Promises. That's the same sumptuous, Spanish-style stuccoed villa where Paula Poundstone is convalescing and Robert Downey Jr. recently rehabbed. The Promises website boasts of "awe-inspiring sunrises," plus a gourmet chef--who presumably will whip up a tasty cake for Affleck's 29th birthday next week...
Forgach's signature deal--the result of one of his jungle-scouting expeditions--was the 1999 purchase of a $1.5 million majority stake in Muana Alimentos, located on the remote Amazon island of Marajo. Muana cultivates acaizeiro palms and packages and sells the palms' hearts (prized for gourmet salads) and their purple acai fruit (used in Howler's organic Rainforest Sorbet). In an industry in which exploitation of the environment and workers is the norm, Muana stood out by refusing to employ children. It paid its workers and suppliers at least 28% above the $78-a-month minimum wage...