Word: purveyors
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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...
...Cream milk (which tastes just like a melted Creamsicle, in a good way). One of Ronnybrook Farm Dairy's best-selling products is its coffee-flavored milk. Made with decaffeinated Brazilian roast coffee, sucannat (an unrefined sugar) and chicory-root extract, it tastes like coffee ice cream. Even doughnut purveyor Krispy Kreme has got into the act at its ubiquitous stores, dispensing hot and cold milks in such flavors as caramel, vanilla, cinnamon, raspberry and their signature "original Kreme...
...foreign critics and celebrated in self-consciously sophisticated Kerala, yet they've barely been released in much of India. But with the visually generous Shadow Kill, the man whom filmmaker Shyam Benegal calls "probably the best director in India today" aims to change the perception that he's a purveyor of small, art-house films. At least he thinks he does. "I want the audience to come and see my work," he says, black eyes flashing. "It's very important to me. But not on their terms. I want them on my terms alone...