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...members of this newly defined species can best be spotted after 9 p.m. in gourmet groceries, their Burberry-clothed arms reaching for the arugula or a Le Menu frozen flounder dinner. In the parking lot, they slide into their BMWs and lift cellular phones to their ears before zooming off to their architect- designed houses in the exurbs. After warmly greeting Rover (often an akita or golden retriever), they check to be sure the pooch service has delivered his nutritionally correct dog food. Then they consult the phone-answering machine, pop dinner into the microwave and finally sink into their...
...consulting firms. "The prime purpose of our answering machine at home is so we can keep in touch with each other," says Ken of their jammed schedules. For pleasure, they sail and "cook seriously together," whipping up veal Normandy or Persian duck in pomegranate sauce. They subscribe to four gourmet magazines and have a collection of 150 cookbooks. Most recent vacation: three weeks in Tahiti and Bora Bora. "Part of me would like children, but, practically speaking, I don't see how," says Michele, who estimates the earliest date for childbearing is 1993. Their ranch-style house has three bedrooms...
...said to have devised "Saratoga chips" to placate a cantankerous customer who complained that the fried potatoes were too thick. But if Crum were to taste chocolate-coated chips, a salt-sweet, cloying aberration priced from $6 to $18 per lb. (the latter from Yuppie Gourmet in Racine, Wis.), he might be sorry he started the whole thing. As a good chef, he would be the first to recognize that even the best idea can be taken...
Their first investment was $2 million to acquire a local 5,000-acre blueberry farm. Its products are now sold under the Native American Foods label in New York City gourmet shops. After the farm venture, the Indians bought other enterprises on or near their reservations, including two radio stations, an ice-skating arena, a fish-processing plant and factories that turn out audiocassettes and prefabricated homes...
WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM, Forward and Torres 5 6 THE FRUGAL GOURMET COOKS WITH WINE, Smith 7 7 HIS WAY: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF FRANK SINATRA, Kelley...