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With 14 different kinds of olives and a selection of fresh-baked bread, it is little wonder that Salumeria Italiana made the short list of Gourmet Magazine’s Boston favorites this year. Though tiny, this shop stocks everything you could possibly need—from meats to pastas to coffee. Goni Topi, the manager for the last six years, says, “We’re a candy store for chefs—as you can see, we have an open bar,” as he gestures to the racks of vinegars open...
...certain level of authority, often seem to give off an attitude of "Who are you to tell me I can't be CEO?" says Stephen F. Hall, who consults through his company, Food Marketing International in Scottsdale, Ariz., and is the author of From Kitchen to Market: Selling Your Gourmet Food Specialty. "It's fraught with great risk," says Hall. "I discourage folks from mortgaging their home...
Those early films boasted a luxurious imagination and a talent for creating spooky or gory effects on minuscule budgets. Bad Taste, with the first-time director in a lead role, had aliens hunting down humans for their fast-food value--gourmet Guignol. Meet the Feebles was, we're pretty sure, the first all-puppet musical-comedy splatter film. The hero of Braindead (also known as Dead Alive) was sucked into the reproductive organs of his 20-ft.-tall zombie monster mom (a puppet), then fought his way out again. Only Heavenly Creatures, a rapturous, true-life study of teen obsession...
...Gourmet chocolate in Japan is usually associated with the obligatory truffle assortments purchased for male co-workers before Valentine's Day. But recent television programs extolling the cancer- and heart-attack-preventing nutrients in rich, dark chocolate have elevated the confectionery to the status of red wine. It's good for you and you can be snobbish about it. Product placards in the top chocolate shops and caf?s now list where the cocoa bean was grown as well as the percentage of cocoa in each mouthwatering morsel. The latest varieties have that distinct Japanese twist: fillings range from the requisite...
...Meanwhile, groups led by Domini Social Investments, which manages $1.8 billion, jolted P&G, the nation's biggest coffee company, with a shareholder resolution demanding that it consider Fair Trade. After protest rallies and a grass-roots campaign, P&G last September launched a Fair Trade line under its gourmet Millstone brand. So far, it is sold only by mail order, but P&G signed an agreement with activists to begin offering it in thousands of supermarkets. Says P&G spokeswoman Tonia Hyatt: "We have a goal of being a leading Fair Trade seller...