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...compulsive. I'm precise," says Martha Klein (Martina Gedeck), chef of a ritzy Hamburg restaurant. Precise, sure, but her loveless life still needs a bit of leavening. That comes in two packages: her balky 8-year-old niece (Maxime Foerste) and a lavishly charming Italian sous-chef (Sergio Castellitto). The setup and payoff of this German export couldn't be more conventional, but Nettelbeck is a sharp observer of life's surprises, and Gedeck has an appraising, intelligent beauty. Her Martha is like the film: tart on the outside, sweet on the inside, with a delectable aftertaste. --By Richard Corliss
...That, however, doesn't mean they're cooking; convenience meals are the fastest growing section of the grocery store. We asked Cesar Casella, author of Italian Cooking for Dummies; Tyler Florence, host of the Food Network's Food 911; Mimi Melek, a working mom of twins; and James Tracey, sous-chef at New York City's Craft, to test the edibility of some popular almost instant meals. --By Lisa McLaughlin...
...exposure of Cherifi's alleged terrorist-support activity arose from a random postal inspection of a parcel sent to a "Mr. Bourgeois" care of the Novotel Hotel in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois, where Cherifi had worked until November 1999 and continued to receive mail. The package contained a set of forged French passports. When Cherifi came to pick it up, police arrested him. A subsequent search of Cherifi's belongings turned up a machine used to forge credit cards...
...first three--his controller, general counsel and sous-chef--bought into a cheesemaker, Egg Farm Dairy. Later came Astra Ridge water and Charlie Palmer Steak. Most recently, the group has taken points in Astra West, a restaurant-catering operation to open this fall in Los Angeles, and the Hotel Healdsburg/Charlie Palmer's Dry Creek Kitchen in Sonoma County, Calif., scheduled for the summer...
...degenerated into commercial slogans -- for the kitchen is a place of remembered magic. What are spells, if not womankind's oldest recipes? What is a caldron but a pot for witches' bouillabaisse? Snow White's stepmother was Apple Annie with a grudge, and Macbeth's Weird Sisters were the sous-chefs of Destiny. If a woman's place is at the stove, then it is there she spent millenniums perfecting her potions. She let her power simmer over a low flame; then she served up the concoction, a work of art from the hearth, to charm those who would love...