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...that he knows when to listen and when not to. He'll hear proposals from both sides, then ignore everybody and find a middle ground he thinks is fair. Then he devotes himself to lobbying the claimants toward his proposal. And let me tell you, he could make a mint as a lobbyist...
...mother of one of six large families that squeeze into quarters once meant for a single household. "Do you think they'd let people like us live in a real palace?" She beckons to the spiral stone staircase, past the reeking squatting-toilet, to her apartment, where she offers mint tea. Her husband, 70, is out, pushing a delivery trolley for $2 a day, too proud to let his unemployed sons do the heavy work...
...consummate vice. But even commercially, his retort seemed to make commercial sense in 1956, when some of the best rockers were singer-pianists: Little Richard, Ray Charles and JLL's fellow Louisianans Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Huey "Piano" Smith. If '50s record producers thought they could make a mint with a white kid who sang like a black man, why couldn't a white kid who played like a black...
...after his mother won a Michelin star by shifting from Alsatian fare to a Mediterranean- inspired menu more typical of the south of France. Klein has since added flavors from farther afield, in dishes like coconut red-mullet soup spiced with Madras curry and sprinkled with aquatic mint. "I'll try an unusual mixture that someone from the classical tradition wouldn't think of," he says. But his foundation is the same. "You have to have the basics of traditional cookery." Keep It Simple On the farm where he grew up, "food wasn't central," says Cees Helder, the only...
...blurred. But there are guys who are ready for another edition, says Thisbe, whose novel "The Good People of New York" just came out in paperback. She recently got an email from a male friend: "I only wish that I had seduced you at some point. Then my Pear Mint Gorganzola Salad would be known to the world...