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...grocery. In the far left of the shop is the butcher’s area. Prime cuts of meat killed according to Kosher laws sit proudly in the display cases. The remainder of the store is divided into aisles filled with prepackaged Kosher foods, imports from Israel and other gourmet items: pre-cooked and frozen potato latkas, bottles of geflite fish balls, matzoh balls and chicken broth. Nearby the butcher’s area sits a baked goods section. A new variety of hamantaschen made its debut: chocolate-dipped hamantaschen ($4.99). The babka, a dense loaf with alternating layers...
Beyond the gourmet kitchen and the spa bathroom, luxury has found its way to the laundry room. Once relegated to gloomy basements and cramped alcoves, the appliances and accessories that wash, dry and care for clothes are now in showcase spaces. Architects and home builders across the country report a surge in demand for spacious, centrally located, multipurpose laundry rooms. The equipment in them is getting a makeover too. The latest generation of washing and drying machines boasts high-tech innovations--with high price tags to match. Home stores and catalogs brim with $120 hampers and $20-a-bottle cleaning...
...Just like cooking, laundry is becoming an art form," says Mike Marsden, professor of cultural studies at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. These "gourmet laundry rooms," as Marsden calls them, began sprouting up in earnest over the past year, and many have media centers with TVs and sound systems, play areas, doghouses and refreshment stations. "No one wants to do the laundry, but you might as well be comfortable while you're doing it," says homeowner Carolyn Hudson of South Shreveport, La. The laundry room in her antiques-filled ranch incorporates a cozy home office where she checks e-mail...
Castigating the guidebooks may be a too-convenient way to explain how Loiseau--who was known in France as "Monsieur 100,000 volts"--could have come undone. After all, this was a man who had overcome life's vagaries: with no formal schooling or gourmet pedigree, Loiseau had bought and run four celebrated restaurants. He received France's Legion of Honor in 1995 and three years later became the first chef to take his company public...
...very difficult profession." Castigating the guidebooks may be a too-convenient way to explain how Loiseau - who was known in France as "Monsieur 100,000 volts" - could have come undone. After all, this was a man who had overcome life's vagaries before: with no formal schooling or gourmet pedigree, Loiseau had bought and run four celebrated restaurants. He received France's Legion of Honor in 1995 and three years later become the first chef to take his company public. Then again, the rankings are to France what the Nobel Peace Prize is to Norway. "More than presidents (whom...