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...tables. Dipped in a plate of first-rate olive oil, it could easily turn into a meal. But that would deny the pleasure of the restaurant’s antipasto plate ($14), with thin slivers of cured meat, chunks of aged Parmesan, and one decadent, silkily rich chicken liver crostini...
...feel was terrible. You could taste the sliminess. The smell wasn't lovely either." Of course, in Blumenthal's kitchen it's often hard to tell the difference between wrong and right. Among his signature dishes: snail porridge, salmon poached with licorice jelly and--after failed experiments with goose liver, parsley, garlic and other ingredients--smoked-bacon-and-egg ice cream. "It may not sound better than the foie gras," he says, "but there are scientific reasons why it works...
...nature of their disease and why it so devastates the immune system. The virus launches a direct attack on helper T cells (or T lymphocytes, as they are also known), invading them in much the same way that the hepatitis virus homes in on cells in the liver. Once ensconced in the T cell, explains Dr. Clifford Lane of the National Institutes of Health, the AIDS virus prevents this vital cell from doing its job as "the initiator of all the immune-system response." Says Lane: "It turns the T cell off from being a lymphocyte and on to being...
...fact, there is a recipe for stuffed bear's foot and another for brain sausages. For the most part, though, Kovi's dishes are more benign: juicy sauerkraut glowing with paprika, subtle tarragon-scented fish soup and mushroom-stuffed carp, crisp roast goose and leg of veal with goose liver, kohlrabi nestled in egg barley and, for a delicate touch, "blushing tomatoes in sour cherry vinegar." Eggplant, cornmeal, strudels and the fragrant honey cake mézeskalács are all included...
...rumors, fed by his wan and wasted appearance, had circulated for days. Rock Hudson, it was said, was suffering from liver cancer and slipping in and out of a coma at the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly. Reality was more shocking than rumor. At the hospital last week, a spokeswoman for the actor bluntly announced, "Mr. Rock Hudson has acquired immune deficiency syndrome...