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...just in time to avoid being tarred as the Nike of corner cafes, Starbucks, the nation's largest gourmet-coffee company, caved last Friday, agreeing to launch a line of Fair Trade-Certified beans. The politically correct coffee is grown on small farm cooperatives rather than large plantations. It sells for a minimum of $1.26 per lb.--which goes directly to the farmers rather than the middlemen, who often pay growers less than 50[cents] per lb. The increase means that the farmers, who hand-pluck their beans and carry them down the mountain in 100-lb. sacks, can afford...
DIED. ALEX COMFORT, 80, British physician, pacifist and author of the lively 1972 gourmet's guide to the sexual revolution, The Joy of Sex; in Banbury, England (see Eulogy below...
...Valentine's Day is one of the most active times of year for the horny gourmet. "When people think Valentine's Day, they think sex," the employee says...
...women on our cover," he says. "But for the most part, they weren't leaning forward; we weren't picking them for their breast size." (Such is the definition of classiness in guy culture today.) And the publisher, known for such upscale glossies as Vogue, GQ and Gourmet, was inflamed by Maxim's voluptuous numbers but too squeamish--and fearful of losing high-end advertisers--to bare all. "We learned that we are an upmarket publisher," says Truman. Or, as a former editor puts it, "they couldn't fully embrace the gutter." The schizo result--skin on the cover, earnest...
Brunch, lunch or dinner costs between $29.50 and $99; the wine is extra. Special onboard events include Sunday jazz concerts, vintners' luncheons with wines paired with each gourmet course, murder-mystery dinner theater, family-fun nights and holiday celebrations www.winetrain.com...