Word: graze
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Starting from a base in California, the graze craze is spreading across the country. Inspired by tapas, Middle Eastern mezes and East Asian small dishes, chefs are offering diners a greater variety of flavors on a multitude of mini-dishes, usually for less money than traditional-size portions and without a load of calories. Several cookbooks have recently been published that focus on the trend, including Meze: Small Plates to Savor and Share from the Mediterranean Kitchen (Morrow) by Diane Kochilas. The extravagant multi-tiered creations of the NASDAQ-fueled '90s have faded. Now the emphasis is on taste, according...
...Then you know you've hit them at the peak," says Keller. His "four bites and you're out" philosophy was once regarded as eccentric but more recently has won over an increasing number of top-line chefs. This year the Zagat restaurant guide for San Francisco declared, "The graze craze is here to stay...
When Harry Met Sally ... well, they got on each other's nerves. Two destinies graze, then merge. In the little picture, they may end up as a wedding photo on a mantelpiece. In the big picture, they become part of 80 years' worth of collective memories. The close encounters we profile in the following pages aren't always first meetings; often they are the first significant ones. But sooner or later, they all created a cocktail of personalities--gin and vermouth, nitro and glycerin--that changed us. In a world that often seems out of people's control, these meetings...
...more exotic the marine life. At 10 meters, where the wall begins, schools of giant tuna and jackfish make their rounds, undisturbed by the occasional diver, while meter-long lobsters scurry for cover, unaware that their immense claws are enough of a deterrence. Farther down, giant sea turtles graze on the marine foliage, and manta rays the size of tabletops pass below. At 30 meters the narrow, vertical frame of a two meter-long napoleon wrasse slices through the water in search of prey, while barracuda, flashing their vicious teeth, swim by alongside the occasional eel. Each successive layer...
...delighted because we had 100,000 last season." Abkhazia's subtropical beauty drew both the élite and the masses to its Black Sea coast in Soviet times. Joseph Stalin and his secret police chief Lavrenti Beria had dachas here, as did Mikhail Gorbachev. Cows now graze around Stalin's dacha, while Beria's is occupied by a senior U.N. official trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the dispute with Georgia. The luxuriant richness of nature here - trees and plants forever threatening to displace human habitation - is obviously what has kept people alive these last 10 years. Given peace...