Word: mercato
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...results were spectacular. The station started producing not just good coffee, but great coffee. Schilling built three more stations. Buyers from Mercato, Intelligentsia and Costco - even a British microbrewer making coffee beer - began showing up. In March 2006, 5,000 Starbucks outlets in the U.S. began selling Rwandan coffee. In their brochure this year, coffee roasters Green Mountain described Rwanda as "the hottest emerging origin in speciality coffee." Its coffee had "floral top notes of lemon ... sweet, caramelized sugar and wild honey evolving into the heady, well-toned presence of chocolate, dried fruit and dark cherry notes." Who knew...
...QUIRKY The more cosmopolitan the contemporary palate gets, the more specific it seems restaurant trends become, to the point that some establishments are going so far as to limit their focus to only one ingredient. In Milan, fashion insiders are talking about Obiká (Via Mercato), a new restaurant located in the trendy Brera district and devoted solely to mozzarella. The mozzarella di bufala is flown in fresh from Naples every 24 hours. As any Italian cheese expert will tell you, after that it loses its taste...
...piece of the next big thing. And as those companies listed on the stock markets, financial institutions got in on the act, driving valuations and share prices through the roof. On March 10, 2000, Germany's Neuer Markt, France's Nouveau Marché, Italy's Nuovo Mercato and the granddaddy of the high-tech bourses, America's nasdaq, all reached new peaks. Then the tide turned, taking with it many investors, market analysts and the brash young things with their big dreams. In the past year, the combined value of all nasdaq stocks has fallen by more than $3 trillion...
...George W. Bush's first choice, Linda Chavez, withdrew from consideration Tuesday afternoon at a highly unusual press conference in which she introduced immigrants she had helped over the years. Citing recent allegations of harboring and employing Marta Mercato, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, Chavez announced she'd become "a distraction" and asked Bush to take her out of the running for the Cabinet post...
...family members, Chavez stood in the Bush-Cheney transition pressroom - without a single member of Bush's support staff - and struck a defiant note. Citing her own difficult beginnings and the support of friends and neighbors, Chavez insisted she was only "trying to do right" when she took Mercato in and helped her adjust to life in the United States...