Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Skiing at Snow Bowl (Middlebury...
...duck breast and confit of duck leg in a berry/orange sauce--turned out to be more than enough for two people as well as the most expensive of the entrees at $14.95 (the others range from $10 to 14). The plate was artistically complimented by a side of crunchy snow peas (not very Spanish but nevertheless rapidly devoured) and moist new potatoes, as well as braised shredded cabbage soaked in sauce and a generous sprinkling of little blueberries. The sauce was fruity without being overbearing, complicated by orange zest. The duck was billed as medium-rare, though be warned that...
Skiing at Snow Bowl (Middlebury...
Everywhere, it seemed, the regular guys took over. Roughly 750 soldiers in camouflage fatigues worked through the night to clear what looked like feet of fresh snow from the slopes. Cashiers consulted dictionaries between customers, and even the local organized-crime syndicates agreed to observe an Olympic truce. At the luge spiral, fans sat on banks of snow in earflaps, letting out cries of delight and astonishment as contestants whooshed past in 80-m.p.h. gusts of air. As cheering fellow lugers raised Hackl, lifting the perennial champion to their shoulders, a competing smile played out on the face...
...about doping scandals and billion-dollar bullet trains, and when the eye makes out giant Coke bottles in the middle of white Alpine silence. Indeed, one by-product of last week's reminder that nature doesn't bend to bullet-train schedules was that suddenly curling, unsmudged by the snow, appeared on Channel 36 in Nagano, and then on Channel 48 and Channel 47, the camera trained on competitors who looked like your Uncle Bob and the sound track made up of nothing but their curses, asides and excited cries of "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" (a technical term, one was told...