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...into dishes like green tea-scented chicken soup and pork chops with coffee fig sauce, as well as specialty cocktails like the Fountain of Youth, whose ingredients include lime vodka, fresh cucumber-and-honeydew puree and essence of spearmint. Peers such as acclaimed chef David Kinch of the restaurant Manresa in Los Gatos, California, salute Patterson for breaking new ground in the use of scent to amplify flavor. "Aroma really is the most central part of how we experience food," says Patterson, who has co-written a new book on the subject, aptly titled Aroma (Artisan; 216 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food You'll Want to Inhale | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...lost Florida and therefore the presidency. Aided by a partisan Supreme Court decision, Bush is now President-elect. He may have the largely ceremonial public endorsement of his former opponents, but this does not make him a legitimate President. Politically speaking, the Republicans got away with murder. JOE MANRESA Schiedam, the Netherlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 22, 2001 | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...three excursions to Catalonia, Andalusia and Asturias, he sparked rousing receptions and warmed to the affection of the crowds. Juan Carlos is helped immeasurably by beguiling blonde Queen Sofia, 37, who along with her royal demeanor has also shown surprising political skill. In the Catalan town of Manresa, Sofia dismissed the royal automobiles and led the King on a flesh-pressing 300-yard march up the town's main street. In Asturias, the royal couple put on miners' attire and spent 90 minutes inspecting a coal mine. Last week, in an extraordinary act for a Spanish Queen, Sofia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A New King With Clout | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...little town called Manresa, he devoted nearly a year to an orgy of austerity, begging door to door, wearing a barbed girdle, fasting for days on end. For months he endured the terrible depressions of the mystic's dark night of the soul, even contemplating suicide at one point. But what followed was the mystic's singular reward, an immense breakthrough to enlightenment. In a wave of ecstatic illumination one day at the River Cardoner, Inigo became, in his own words, "another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...villagers stirred in the square, worried about their idol; soon the shouts arose: "Down with the catechists! Long Live King San Pascual." Maryknoller Flaherty, who had been a missionary at nearby Sija, drove up, heard the shouts, nervously turned back. Minutes later Bishop Manresa and his party rolled in with six policemen, and the Governor told San Pascual's devotees to make way for the clergy. Emboldened, the mayor said his town did not want Flaherty, the foreign priest; the angry Governor summoned soldiers, who cleared the plaza. Bishop Manresa elevated the Olintepeque church to parish status; then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: The Gods of Olintepeque | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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