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...only it were that simple. Known for its blood orange foams, and 'spherified' croquettes made from ham broth - as well as for bringing the likes of centrifuges and hydrocolloids into the kitchen - molecular gastronomy has been more reviled than any style of cooking since a handful of chefs thought stacking a few undressed pea pods on the plate and calling it nouvelle cuisine was a good idea. That might account for why the trio sounded ever so slightly defensive as they protected the role of science in their kitchens. Brandishing a loaf of bread like an amulet, Adrià, chef...
...delicacy is among scores of European products targeted by a 100% levy the U.S. imposed in 1999 in retaliation for the European Union's longstanding ban on hormone-treated American beef on the grounds that it may be unsafe to eat. But unlike other goods on the list - truffles, ham, chocolate, mineral water, sausages, and certain fruits and vegetables - Roquefort is the only one whose tariffs is to be boosted from 100% to 300%. (See pictures of what the world eats...
...smell of baked ham and soggy lettuce on a dry nine-grain bun doesn’t typically make my mouth water, but shortly into my 2 hour, 21 minute flight home for Christmas, it sounded utterly delicious. “Excuse me, sir,” said the flight attendant. “Would you like some lunch today?” For a moment, I was disoriented—there was no five dollar price tag attached to the offer, only an enticing lunch box on her outstretched arm. And I had been addressed politely, an antiquated notion...
Before sitting down to a Christmas dinner of turkey and ham, Obama spent about an hour with more than 100 Marines in Andersen Hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Dressed in a blue shirt and dark slacks, Obama walked among the Marines at a dining facility on the base starting at about 4 p.m. Service members stood to greet Obama, smiled, posed for photographs, and some were able to coax a few autographs out of their incoming Commander in Chief. "I am especially pleased that President-elect Obama has gone out of his way during his family vacation to spend...
...Harvey Oswald. It's just one of dozens of connections that the prodigiously industrious investigative journalist Russ Baker has drawn between President No. 41 and the assassination of President No. 35. He also connects the dots between the Bushes and Watergate, which he farfetchedly describes not as a ham-handed act of political espionage but as a carefully orchestrated farce designed to take down President Richard Nixon. It's common knowledge that the Bushes sit at the intersection of America's business and intelligence communities, but Baker takes it further: he sees them as part of a "globally reaching, fundamentally...