Word: pear
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...mixed green salad, assorted with a surprisingly sweet mixture of pickled grapes and butter-doused raisins, was a perfect compliment. In keeping with his Jersey roots my date had beef and fries, though at Metro the dish is called Steak Fritte. We finished the meal off with a pear tarte topped with caramel walnut ice cream and could do nothing more than sit back and relish the oncoming food coma. Our taste buds tickled and our palates sated, we left the Parisian restaurant all smiles...
...bountiful budget surplus, then estimated at some $275 billion. But when Daniels appeared before the panel last week, his estimate of the spare cash fell as low as $160 billion. The committee's new Democratic chairman, Kent Conrad, served some baked goods too. He gave Daniels a modest pear tart with the words "shrinking surplus" inscribed in frosting...
...regions remain as different as basketball and NASCAR. That thought occurred when my lunch partner, a man named Chris Sullivan, told me this: "To say the War Between the States was about slavery is like saying the Revolutionary War was about tea." And he meant it, sure as the pear trees bloom in sun-washed Columbia, the South is rising once again...
...Aubry Brut 1995 Le Nombre d'Or. Fromenteau, arbanne and petit meslier; $40. Orange, lemon, grapefruit, pear and peach, plus exotic perfumes from the rare grapes...
Today Fleming spends much of her time devising new recipes for the restaurant (a pear-based dessert for the fall menu is a current priority). She is also working on her first cookbook, The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern, to be published by Random House next fall. Her ultimate fantasy: to open "the great American bakery--whatever that is"--or, better yet, a restaurant that serves nothing but desserts...