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Those who like it sweet can indulge in the down-home flavor of pecan-butter brittle confected by Buckley's Candies of Louisiana. Sophisticated and pricier are some imports from Belgium: Le Chocolatier Manon's bittersweet chocolates filled with mandarin orange liqueur and burnt caramel. Even more stunning is its big marbleized chocolate scallop shell that holds nine chocolate praline fruits de mer -- mussels, crayfish and shrimp -- a dessert that delights the eye as much as the palate...
...rambling garden with flowers and yellow umbrellas. The moderately priced food has a homemade freshness, with such creations as prettily garnished salads, bright carpaccio of beef, or steamed clams, oysters and mussels in a chive + broth. Moist Dover sole, broiled with bread crumbs, and grilled squab nested on pecan-studded wild rice are fine main courses, and there are outstanding desserts, among them a little box of chocolate wrapped around framboise- moistened chocolate cake...
...truly rare. In much the same way, Rosenzweig should have let well enough alone with the rice pudding, one of the few really good things on the old list. New desserts are still uneven; better additions include ice cream glazed in the style of creme brulee, a crunchy maple pecan pie and a fine custardy clafoutis with blackberries...
...picturesque Puget Sound and snowcapped Mount Rainier, Boeing's corporate headquarters faces a railroad track and an airstrip in a grimy industrial zone. A down-to-earth Missourian, Wilson, 65, has been known to drop in on the machinists' annual Christmas party with one of his wife's pecan pies. During the airline-industry slump in the early 1970s, however, he did not hesitate to lay off nearly two-thirds of the company's 148,000 workers...
...know what that means, it means no microwave. She characterizes it as Southern American cooking with a Continental influence. If you do not know what that means, it means no heavily floured sauces on the fish, no gooey jambalaya -- Elizabeth heats no ingredient before its time -- and a pecan pie that does not render the consumer immobile...