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...practice. A lot of supposed gourmets have been talking about single origin chocolate, but for starters, take several small portions of different chocolates to find a flavor you enjoy. As soon as you open the wrapper of your first bar, prepare yourself for a distinctive dark chocolate smell, rich like coffee but complete with notes of other flavors. The smell is the first sign that quality dark chocolate is far more complex than the mass-produced Hershey’s Bars. Don’t let the bitterness force you to swallow too quickly; instead keep the chocolate in your...
...playing in their video. Then again, bands who actually achieve artistic integrity in their videos tend to hire professional directors. Instead of viewing the video itself, simply visualize the aforementioned freeze-frames and digitally mastered crowd surfing to the following lyrics: “There’s a smell of stale fear that’s reeking from our skins / The drinking never stops because the drinks absolve our sins / We sit and grow our roots into the floor / But what are we waiting for?” Clearly, we’re waiting for you, Sir Endicott...
...Sanjay Gupta reported on a study that concluded that alcohol and exercise may help your heart [Feb. 4]. Among other things, it found that those of us who exercise and don't drink alcohol are no better off than couch potatoes who drink moderately. This does not pass the smell test. I'm 61 years old, have exercised since high school and just don't like the taste of alcohol. I can probably outwalk drinking nonexercisers half my age, including the study's authors. Danny Bernstein, ASHEVILLE...
...sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in It's a Wonderful life. But Valentine's Day leaves me cold. It's a holiday that has no idea of what it's really celebrating. Or at least no idea of whom it celebrates: St. Valentine could be any of half a dozen Christian martyrs whom the early church recruited to clean up and bless pagan fertility festivals. Of the top candidates, the best known is a priest named Valentinus...
...London, you could almost smell the panic. "There's an acrid stench of fear," says David Buik at London brokers BGC Partners. The list of those investors' worries is growing. Despite a $150 billion package of tax cuts and other economic stimulus unveiled by President Bush last Friday, a recession in the U.S. remains "more likely than not," says Gabriel Stein, chief international economist at Lombard Street Research in London. The reason: markets can still only guess the scale of losses incurred by banks caught up in the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market. With those banks themselves still...