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...career journey that has carried him to Paris and through Latin America. Many dishes are served on a block of translucent glass that looks like ice. One is tuna accompanied by horseradish sorbet, colder and more crystalline than the traditional horseradish in cream. Among our other favorites were a soup of sea urchin, seared foie gras and watermelon; and hot smoked arctic char with octopus, mushroom, buckwheat ragout and duck consomme...
...food is basic but nicely prepared. I started with half a dozen oysters in a mignonette sauce and followed with lobster tail atop a bed of risotto. Both dishes were fine, as were the asparagus soup and rack of lamb my companion ordered...
...Sherpas and seven Swiss climbers toward the South Col at 7,925 m, they were stopped by savage winds and forced to bivouac 153 m below the day's goal. Tashi Tenzing writes, "My grandfather stayed in the Sherpa tent to keep them company. He managed to cook some soup and the Swiss were incredulous when, roped to keep himself from being blown off the face, he appeared at their tent with hot food and drink." The next morning, Tenzing Norgay's three exhausted and frightened Sherpa companions refused to go on, so he shouldered a double load, climbed...
...Waxman's line of questioning is exactly the kind of inquiry that White House officials say the public has no patience for. Lengthy probes into the provenance of a few sentences in an already aging federal report, they add, is the sort of duck soup that turned voters off about Washington and politics for much of the Clinton era. Republicans believe this in part because they learned that lesson the hard way. The party's take-no-prisoners wing is still smarting a bit from 1998, when it did not realize until too late that its drive for Bill Clinton...
...fame as a movie star and then garnered infamy as a President. Of his legendary appetites, for women, drink, gambling, food, he can now only assuage the latter. And while he sits before a table groaning with his favorite dishes?plates of lechon and cheese, vats of bird-fetus soup and sweet rice-paper rolls, all hustled across town from the fully staffed kitchen of his family home?he tries to conjure his old enthusiasm, to reawaken the fire that he rode to his populist successes. And for a few moments, as he takes up again the role...