Word: mustard
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Philadelphia is known for its soft pretzels (eaten with mustard), snapper soup (eaten with sherry) and heroic sandwiches (eaten with trepidation, and called hoagies). Last week another item-well-dressed cheesecake-was added to the local menu when Canadian Publisher Pierre Péladeau served up his new Philadelphia Journal, a breezy morning tabloid with an initial circulation of 200,000. The Journal's salient contribution to the state of journalism is a daily Philly filly on page 7, fully clothed but flashing a thigh, a kneecap or some other item of civic pride. The paper devotes nearly half...
...Seattle, Truffles sells (besides fresh truffles at $12.81 per oz.) 60 different marmalades, 32 pastas, honey from 45 countries, 750 wines and a highly prized condiment known as Arizona champagne mustard sauce (used with meat and fish and as a glaze for ham). Houston's Jim Jamail & Sons imports such esoterica as Maine cacklebird, Indian quail and Finnish grouse?and recently filled a client's request for 48 Ibs. of African elephant meat (which was cut into steaks and broiled...
WHEN SOME EX-LINEBACKER comes up to you in Tommy's Lunch at three in the morning and demands a bite of your cheese steak do you tell him, in no uncertain terms, "With or without mustard?" You've got lots of company if you're the kind of person who walks away from a fight. Most of us hum along with Elton but stay clear of Father's on a Saturday night. So maybe if a townie leans out his car window to inquire, "Move it, ya Hahvahd queah!" you pretend not to notice. But you move it--silently...
...this day, did Harvard, which now finds itself tied for third with Brown and Penn a mere two weeks after its Dartmouth triumph had catapaulted it to the top. Like the counterman at The Butcher Shop, the Crimson couldn't cut the mustard...
...Bosnic overcame his fear of another sprawling urban campus, thanks to the prodding of admiring townspeople, who had faith that Gallatin's student council president, salutarian and baseball-football captain could cut the Ivy mustard...