Word: potatoed
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...been cooking since noon.” While many groups chose to outsource their cooking, the members of the Irish-American Society rolled up their own sleeves and took to the kitchens of Eliot dining hall. From their hearty raisin-studded soda bread to their traditional blackberry potato pancakes dusted with powdered sugar, the dishes exuded the comfort of fireside warmth. Beef patties at the Harvard Caribbean Club and cannoli at the Harvard Italian-American Association received rave reviews from food festival connoisseurs. No surprise there: the patties were catered by Flame Restaurant and the cannoli from Mike?...
DIED. Robert Adler, 93, physicist for Zenith who, with colleague Eugene Polley, invented the first commercially successful wireless TV remote control, sparking the couch-potato revolution; in Boise, Idaho. The tiny, elegant Zenith Space Command, which raised the price of TVs soon after it hit the market in 1956, was a vast improvement on its predecessors--one of which involved a long cord. In 1997 the gadget whose marketers once boasted, "Nothing between you and the TV but space!" won Adler and Polley an Emmy...
...career of an obscure Canadian singer, it’s the game’s commercials that get everyone—from the most casual of observers to the self-described fanatics like yours truly—pumped for the ultimate lesson in how to be an American couch potato...
...Jeremy Selwyn, 36, a Boston software engineer who runs reviews of more than 3,300 snacks on taquitos.net and for the past three years has been an attendee at Snaxpo, the snack-food industry's annual trade show. He bemoans the loss of fried flavor in Cape Cod--brand potato chips after their switch to canola oil. "Snacks aren't supposed to be healthy," he says. "They're supposed to taste good." Those are the kinds of statements that get you high fives in the back rooms of Snaxpo...
...snack flavors seem to clump around versions of salt and pepper, wasabi and pickle. But the flavor breakthrough has been to finally combine the taste of buffalo wings with the flavor of blue-cheese dip. Kettle Krinkle Cut Chips Buffalo Bleu is a thick potato chip that manages to deliver the slight spice of barbecue with a cool, creamy aftertaste. It's impressive, but there's a vinegar taste that gets in the way. Doritos Blazin' Buffalo & Ranch isn't nearly as complicated, but it takes that weird Cool Ranch flavor I never liked, puts it up front and then...