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...landscape. The powerful band of prime cross-country airwaves, which is currently being used for analog TV broadcasts, is due to free up by February 2009 when TV goes fully digital. So, if ever a new telecom player were to carve out a piece of the lucrative nationwide wireless pie, now would be the time. "This is the last auction of any magnitude the FCC will do for the foreseeable future," says Rebecca Arbogast, analyst with financial-services shop Stifel, Nicolaus...
THERE WAS A TIME when a pizza pie was simple: red (marinara), white (mozzarella) and round. As the first pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's '80s hot spot Spago and later the architect of the menu for the national chain California Pizza Kitchen, Ed LaDou was pivotal in elevating the dish to gourmet status. A cult figure to celebrities--who flocked to the Los Angeles Spago for his latest creations--LaDou topped his pies with such unconventional ingredients as duck sausage, smoked salmon, hoisin sauce and barbecued chicken, his signature. The culinary mission? To expose diners to what he called...
...Philadelphia Distilleries, which produces the patriotically named Bluecoat gin. "For us it's all about sourcing the best ingredients and aromatics." Handpicked juniper berries and a citrus blend give Bluecoat its distinctively earthy herbal taste. Melkon Khosrovian at California-based Modern Spirits uses pumpkins to make his acclaimed Pumpkin Pie vodka. "I came at this as a foodie," says Allison Evanow of Square One, a California vodka made from certified organic American rye. "And we are trying to do for the bar what Alice Waters"--the pioneering local-foods chef--"did for the kitchen. We create something as pure...
...caucus than in bending their ears about supporting Huckabee. "Rural Iowa, or rural Minnesota, in some ways, it's sort of timeless," he said of politicking in Algona. "It's still a lot of small-town elbow rubbing. It's not organized. It takes place over a piece of pie...
...proposals that are outlined, but quite frankly, even those, they are going to be more for you guys [journalists], than they are the general public. In all the time I ran for office in Arkansas, I don't remember anybody ever coming up and saying, 'Okay, I want your pie chart. I want to see that.' That's inside baseball stuff. What they really want to know is what direction are you going...