Word: savoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nelan was assigned last year to New York City, where he can now savor firsthand the astonished looks of his colleagues as he dispenses another bit of knowledge in the hallways. "We were talking the other day about etiquette," says World editor Jim Kelly, "when Bruce remarked that there is only one thing that you can remove from your mouth and set on your plate while dining with the Queen of England. Bird shot." That ought to merit at least a $500 question on Jeopardy...
...microwave oven is not to blame: it is not machines that kill taste but the people who use them. What is destroying American cuisine is the growing fetish for cooking entire dinners during the commercial breaks on Wheel of Fortune and Family Feud. "Unlike in Europe, where someone might savor the experience of food," says Joel Weiner, the former executive vice president of Kraft, "Americans have gone the other way in a rapid-fire, lowest-common- denominator world...
...survey by the Scotch Whisky Information Center in the U.S. concluded that single-malt fanciers are younger, more affluent and better educated than drinkers of blended Scotch. "People may be drinking less," says Peter Smith, the center's director, "but they are savoring more." Connoisseurs may eventually have more malts to savor. Several "silent" (mothballed) distilleries have lately sprung back to life. And next month Schenley < Affiliated Brands, an American subsidiary of Britain's United Distillers (Guinness), takes over U.S. distribution of six U.D.(G.)-owned malts. As a quick guide to the range of malt tastes, Schenley will sell...
...home in London's fashionable Kensington, Antonia Pakenham Fraser Pinter is a composition by Gainsborough. Her English skin would make peaches weep in their cream. Blue eyes seem to savor a secret, shared but not revealed. She is tall, not willowy but womanly, and at 57 she is, by any standard, beautiful...