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...black background: this dramatic still-life, coupled with austere gold lettering and the words “natural history,” succeeds in making this food look as plastic and unappetizing as humanly possible. STEALING BUDDHA’S DINNER: A MEMOIR by Bich Mihn Nguyen With cute pastel pink lettering and a tantalizing candy dish containing a Nestle’s Drumstick, Skittles, a candy necklace, and some strategically placed Pringles, this memoir promises to be a tasty treat. Cultural anxiety, the struggle to assimilate to American culture, bridging gaps between the generations—all these...

Author: By Rachel M. Green, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

What, you ask, is a mini macaron? It's a bite-sized version of its larger cousin, a delicate but explosive cream-filled, pastel-colored meringue cookie as cheery as an Easter egg and sweet as a stolen kiss. It's an indulgence, a passion, then an obsession. In other words, it's the ultimate French confection. Paris is divided into two camps: those who hold that the best mini macarons come from Ladurée, and those that swear by Pierre Hermé. This is a somewhat academic debate, since Hermé worked at Ladurée before opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bon Bonbons | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

...capital from its longtime home in coastal Rangoon to a far-flung jungle outpost called Naypyidaw. On March 27, in celebration of Armed Forces Day, junta head General Than Shwe unveiled the city to foreign reporters, surveying his new digs via the open sun roof of his Mercedes limo. Pastel buildings? Check. Eight-lane highway? Check. Vibrant new city for a nation of 47 million? Not yet. Those in Rangoon who still have a choice haven't budged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Note: Apr. 9, 2007 | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...Edward Scissorhands , the tale of a boy stitched together in a forbidding castle by a lonely inventor who dies, leaving his scarred, preternaturally gentle creature to be discovered by the folks in the middle-class folks neighborhood just below the castle. (In the movie, that street of dizzyingly matched pastel homes was a real place: Tinsmith's Circle in Lutz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edward Scissordance | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...Airbus configuration of seats (which can be customized by airlines) put 12 first class seats and 307 economy seats on the first deck, and 63 business class seats and 137 economy on the upper deck - all distinguished by different pastel colored upholstery. In any other circumstance the scene would have been a flight attendant's nightmare with so many people moving about but, of course, the demonstration flight meant that people had free range to get a better sense of the craft - and who else was riding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Off on the Airbus A380 | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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