Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beef Oxtail. The meat was unbelievably tender, the kind of tender where you practically don't have to chew. It had a piquant, peppery flavor with a full-bodied beefy sauce that can only be produced through hours of patient simmering. Very tasty. Also quite good was a chicken stew that was bizarrely Germanized on the menu as "Chicken Stroganoff." The chicken was smothered in a garlicky cream sauce with a surprising dash of ketchup that added a tangy touch-as well as a funky pinkish color. The buffet also included something called Black Beans Stew...
...stew which results form mixing these ingredients together is dynamic, sometimes astonishingly so. But the Harvard terrain can be very difficult to navigate, especially for those students who find themselves here without guidelines for the first time in their life, or who lack the great self-confidence of so many of their peers...
...federal courthouse Tuesday: Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale stepped down from the witness stand after six days of witty one-liners and folksy banter. His parting shot: How the Microsoft-Apple deal, which made Internet Explorer the default browser on every Mac, made him feel. "It irritated the stew out of me," said Barksdale. In notes released by the Justice Department, Apple's chief financial officer says Apple was "dead" unless it made Explorer the default. The government?s next witness, Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, has a tough act to follow...
...segmentation doesn't bother anyone. In fact, people probably like their tastes so particularly catered to. But in the media, this personal attention is dangerous. News is a powerful weapon, as Hearst and Pulitzer proved when they "manufactured" the Spanish-American War in 1898. Today's large mushy media stew has little responsibility to cover comprehensively the day's or week's essential news events. With this responsibility lifted off its shoulders, it has found a fertile way to take the truth and stretch it so as to keep circulation and ratings high--let's call it the cash crop...
...created to go with one of her novels; subscribe to her newsletter; read reprints of her syndicated column; and peruse rambling letters about her latest doings. (Last week, we were delighted to learn, Maynard was in the Hamptons with her painter friend Paco, who "keeps a stew pot going, filled with some amazing concoction containing fish and potatoes and herbs and wine...