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Next door to Schaps' Illinois shop, another starch purveyor has launched a counteroffensive. The Homemade Pizza Co. is whetting local interest with reformulated, reduced-carb pies. The shop claims to slice 40% off the carb load by replacing white flour with whole wheat and eliminating sugar from the dough. But those modifications surely won't cut it for some. Bearno's pizza chain, based in Louisville, Ky., is finding a ravenous market for entirely crustless creations that feature a base of mozzarella cheese to support the sauce and toppings. "It's pretty flimsy," admits managing partner Robert Mooney...
...outside our gated confines. The culture and society that so many of us study exists outside course readings and the Internet, yet too many students willfully shut themselves off from what their future employers, spouses and peers observe on television and think about. TV remains the dominant shaper and purveyor of our culture, and it’s not a good idea to have a black hole where a sense of that culture should...
What is "beef bowl" without the beef? That sounds like a Zen riddle, but it's actually the nightmare playing out at Yoshinoya D&C Co., Japan's leading purveyor of gyudon, a fast-food staple of rice topped with thin slices of stewed beef that's tasty, filling and, at just $2.60 per serving, fantastically popular with students and salarymen...
...Salem is entirely new....A lot of what people see there now builds on popular ideas developed in the 19th century (125 years after the Salem witch trials),” she writes in an e-mail. “Nathaniel Hawthorne is, of course, the best known purveyor of that 19th century literary version of 17th century history, but he had lots of company. There were plays, stories, poems, news stories, exhibits of relics all through the 19th century, and eventually Hawthorne’s stories and 17th century restoration merged in the opening of the House...
Harvard’s finest are a-twitter about the newest specialty bistro to settle in Cambridge: Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin Robbins. The world’s largest purveyor of baked goods and coffee offers a taste of middle America for McDonald’s-deprived students and those Harvard University Police Department officers who previously had to venture towards the Kennedy School of Government for their daily bread, er, donut...