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Seattle's ocean feast is dazzling in its diversity. Coral-shelled "singing" scallops that send forth quiet popping noises when swimming and sweet Penn Cove mussels vie for places on seafood menus with assorted salmons (coho, chinook, silver, sockeye, king) and several types of rockfish and cod. The silken black cod also known as sablefish is especially enticing in the pomegranate sauce that glosses it at Le Tastevin. Then there is geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck), a giant clam that can be sauteed with the robust Mediterranean seasonings that befit what might be described as clam-flavored squid...
...take-out means pizza, chicken or burgers from fast-food chains, or a Chinese or Mexican meal -- or, of course, frozen or vacuum-bagged fodder from the supermarket. But these days there is a huge variety of fresh take-out food for the weary shopper. Many supermarkets offer wide menus that include not only kaleidoscopic salad bars but also many tony dishes just cooked in-house. The newly spruced-up Rice Epicurean Market in Houston offers roasted Cornish hens and beef Wellington, and it will steam lobsters to order as a customer goes about other shopping. The menu...
...gimmick was instantly successful and surprisingly profitable. More than 100 diners showed up with the flyers over a three-week period. They were given menus without prices, but wound up paying an average of $33 for their meals, about $7.50 more than the usual cost. "We were betting on people's good taste and their sense of fair play," says Rowitch. He is going to mail another 6,000 flyers in the coming weeks...
...moment. The bagel has gone mainstream. Dense and chewy, with a shiny golden brown crust and a center hole, this round Jewish-Eastern European roll has long been a breakfast favorite primarily in New York City and along the Atlantic seaboard. Now it is increasingly appearing on fast-food menus and in the freezers of supermarkets well beyond its ethnic boundaries. Two giant firms have moved into the frozen-bagel business in recent years: Kraft, which owns Lender's, the first and largest producer of frozen bagels, and Sara Lee, which has a line of its own. But primary credit...
...proposal, which will be considered by the Council in December, would prohibit anymore fast-food restaurants from moving into Central Square. It defines a fast-food restaurant as one that uses disposable dinnerware, does not have individual printed menus, and seats fewer than 75 percent of its customers at tables...