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...Bubble Tea ($3.50) has grown in popularity in the US, spreading east from California. It features pea-sized pearls of rice tapioca at the bottom of the glass that shoot through the extra-wide straw into your mouth like glutinous bullets. Bubble teas are often made from a powder that gives them a syrupy sweetness, but at Dado, they’re made with loose tea leaves that give the drink a delicate flavor. And the highlight, the tapioca pearls, are soft, sweet, and stick-to-your-teeth gooey...
...beginning to rely on snazzy science first and street smarts second. Fischer reports that when he is interviewing job applicants for the L.A. sheriff's lab, one question he asks is what they would do if they came upon a murder victim clutching a plastic bag containing a blue powder. Typically, the applicants tick off the string of high-tech tests they would conduct on the substance. What they never ask is where the body was found. "If it was in a Laundromat, he probably had detergent in the bag," says Fischer...
FINGERPRINTS Most prints, set down by oils and sweat on the surface of fingers and hands, are not easy to spot. But investigators have a hefty bag of tricks to expose them-powder, chemicals, lasers and lights. Or even plain old superglue. Prints that are invisible on things like duct tape will appear once subjected to fumes from the heated glue...
...dresses have pride of place not because of their significance as fashion, but because of the celebrity of those who wore them - Elizabeth Hurley, Princess Diana and Naomi Campbell. To underscore that point, giant portraits of Hurley in the safety-pin dress she made famous and Diana in a powder-blue beaded sheath flank the entrance. The show's emphasis on fame over fashion says a lot about the V&A's reasons for staging it in the first place. When the museum announced last spring that its largest exhibition devoted to a single designer would celebrate Versace, the fashion...
Cardamom n. Iranian. A spice that is traditionally used in Middle Eastern countries, most notably Iran. Iranian spice connoisseurs grind cardamom seeds and use the resulting powder to season coffee. At Baraka, this seasoning garnishes the tops of tea drinks recommended as compliments to dessert. i.e.: Mahmoud refuses to drink dining hall coffee, lamenting the fact that coffee sans cardamom simply isn’t the same...