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While the Singhs have added soups, grape leaves stuffed with rice and spices and taboulen (a parsely and cracked wheat salad) to the menu over the past few months, the overall selection is still mostly limited to Cheese-laden Greek salad, hummos, and beef, chicken or lamb shisk-kabobs...

Author: By Colleen T. Gaard, | Title: Family Offers Hearty, Cheap Middle Eastern | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

...their weaknesses. Thereafter, things turn ugly for the poor guy: in a sequence owing a lot to Steve Martin's nose-joke routine in a bar in "Roxanne," Buddy proceeds to roast the comic to a crisp. Where Klump had received abuse -- "Now we know what's eating Gilbert Grape!"--Buddy dishes it out, worse than the comic himself could do. (But Chapelle captures the strutting, merciless vulgarity and one-up-manship of many such comics perfectly, only breaking character in that he is actually occasionally funny...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Murphy as Jeckyll, Hyde, and Their Randy Grandma | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

Consumer organizations hailed Post's moves as "Grape Nuts Monday"--an echo of "Marlboro Friday," when Philip Morris cut the cost of Marlboros in 1993 and ignited an industry-wide break in cigarette prices. "Brand-name cereals have been outrageously priced for as long as anyone can remember,'' says Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "Cutting the price will make it easier for more Americans to eat a healthier breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEREAL SHOWDOWN | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...plastic purple container that might normally hold a shot of creamer, filled instead with the grape juice most American Protestants use to celebrate the Lord's Supper. The Communion wafer nestles between layers of a pull-tab lid. The item, assures Johnson, is "liturgically correct." The cups cost 10¢ each. "No waste, no hassle," says Johnson. And no germs. The cup's press kit notes that it may help prevent the spread of meningitis, although Johnson says, "We are careful not to sell fear. That's not what this cup is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook, Feb. 26, 1996 | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...CALIFORNIA VIOGNIERS Originally from the Rhone valley in France, viognier (vee-oh-nyay) will never displace Chardonnay, but this white wine's complex array of flavors--a soft simulation of sweetness--has California vineyards devoting huge acreage to the difficult grape. Arrowood and Kunde Estate are choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1995: PRODUCTS | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

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