Word: sugar
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...Apple Pucker. He recommends using Pucker as the apple liquor “because it has the best apple flavor” as well as “a very nice color.” The drinks at Grafton are garnished with cherries or festive apple peel, but a sugar-rimmed glass can detract a little from the tartness. Bartenders at Grafton opt for a strong sour mix, making their drinks quite tart. The effect creates a taste reminiscent of bright green blowpops. Barry thinks the drink makes a particularly good aperitif—or after-dinner drink?...
...tarte tatin (apple tart) and crème brulée were tempting and cried out from the menu as a possible redemption. I ordered the brulée and was once again let down with a resounding “oeuf!” as the burnt sugar crust required just a bit too much push to crack, and the chilled custard beneath (I prefer warm) had a hint of a stale dairy taste, suggesting that it had been in the no doubt adorably quaint Frigidaire for a bit too long. Even a cup of Earl Grey tea tasted...
...rate swap now under review by its attorney general. Conrad Enill, Trinidad's Finance Minister, says his government is closely watching what happens in Dominica. So far no one has been willing to reopen the Trintomar transaction, but Seereeram persists. It took his father 15 years to win his sugar battle. Seereeram has been fighting for only four...
...transaction had fizzled out. Seereeram was distracted when a partner in his consulting firm was disgraced in a separate financial scandal. Seereeram was turning into a Dickensian figure: the aggrieved claimant in a never-ending dispute over money. This was a character he knew well: Seereeram's father, a sugar-cane farmer, spent 15 years fighting a law that required farmers to surrender a percentage of their profits to the sugar farmers' trade association...
Easily fatigued type II muscle fibers, known as “fast-twitch” muscles, are fueled by the breakdown of sugar. When the protein is introduced to fatigued type II muscles, it supplies the fibers with the mitochondria they need to produce energy from oxygen...