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...mere six hours after closing the bar, Batali could be found swimming in the Peninsula's rooftop pool. After he swam, Batali put away crab cake Benedict while constantly checking his Treo for messages and simultaneously answering my questions. Then he was off for two hours of negotiations with retailers to persuade them to place orders for his cookware. Next he did the demo, and afterward he signed autographs for about 250 fans. He also kept up a running banter that had continued all weekend...
...performed a neat trick. He made the revolution feel young and hip again--he was just 32 when Pò opened--and his respect for traditional Italian cuisine also lent his food a sense of history uncommon to American restaurant fare; Batali has always said most of his dishes are mere reinventions of old--in some cases ancient--Italian recipes...
...fake." O.K., but the challenge he now faces is not to misjudge how far you can stretch your brand without cheapening it. In the '90s, because of his Manhattan restaurants, Batali vaulted into the small coterie of cooks who were seen as fine artists rather than mere craftsmen. His brand seemed to be quality, a refined ristorante simplicity. But as he hawks his line of pork sausages to NASCAR fans, one already senses the distress of his original aficionados. Do you order a $30 squab from the NASCAR chef? Cautionary tales lurk in every corner of the food world: remember...
...word, not surprisingly, money. Silverstein had the fortune, or misfortune perhaps, of acquiring a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center site, mere months before 9/11. The lease says that Silverstein has to rebuild, but state and city officials are increasingly skeptical that he can fulfill the massive $7 billion project, especially since the insurance money to cover it amounts to just under $3 billion...
...While that may seem like mere semantics, in diplomatic parlance the phrase has a very specific - and to the Russians ominous - meaning; it echoes the U.N. charter and, in Lavrov's mind, could potentially serve as a precedent for subjecting Iran to punitive economic and political sanctions, which the U.S. supports and Russia adamantly opposes...