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...George Bernard Shaw once observed that "There is no love sincerer than the love of food." A member of the Bread Bakers Guild, Julia Child shared with the public the secrets of great cooking, encouraging us to master the fundamentals and use the best ingredients. We take solace in the fact that Child's last meal was a bowl of French onion soup?which of course includes a toasted baguette slice. We recall fondly her closing line at the end of every show: "Bon app?tit." Gina Piccolino Executive Director Bread Bakers Guild of America North Versailles...
...lucky, you might get some tips from "the Nose"?Galimard's master perfumer, Jacques Maurel. Part of an ?lite group of fewer than 20 top perfumers worldwide, Maurel has powers of smell that a bloodhound would envy. He says "fruity and flowery scents," are in fashion now?and it's his business to know, because all but a handful of the 100 or so fragrances launched each year are soon withdrawn from the shelves of the world's beauty stores and duty-frees...
...tower repairman Nick Berg in May, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted al-Qaeda terrorist in Iraq, appended a theological message. Berg's murder, the masked man intoned, was sanctioned by Islam's holiest texts. "Has the time not come for you to lift the sword, which the master of the Messengers [Muhammad] was sent with?" al-Zarqawi asked. "The Prophet ... has ordered to cut off the heads of some of the prisoners of Badr ... He is our example...
...treasure and a friend we all shall miss. John Howard Ventura, California, U.S. George Bernard Shaw once observed, "There is no love sincerer than the love of food." A member of the Bread Bakers Guild, Julia Child shared with the public the secrets of great cooking, encouraging us to master the fundamentals and use the best ingredients. We take solace in the fact that Child's last meal was a bowl of French onion soup - which of course includes a toasted baguette slice. We recall fondly her closing line at the end of every show: "Bon appétit." Gina...
...perky performance we do, not least because we have all been in her position, desperate to impress our betters. Moreover, director Mira Nair has created a pretty panorama--populated with solid actors like Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne--of English life in the Georgian era for Becky to master. It is more exotic than Thackeray's, more laden with the booty of a burgeoning colonial empire, but Nair, Indian by birth, is entitled to her opinions about the exploitations on which England's wealth was based...