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Rose Levy Beranbaum knows from baking. The author of the million-copies-sold The Cake Bible spends most days thinking about what to do with flour, butter and sugar. That task became even more satisfying about eight years ago when she discovered a fleet of organic and unrefined sugars that have distinct flavors. "Sugar is no longer just a sweetener," she says of this new class of specialty sugars from exotic locales like Costa Rica and Paraguay. "It's now a flavoring ingredient that brings a whole new spectrum to the artist's palette of taste...
Conventionally refined sugar is snowy white because all the natural molasses has been extracted from the cane, leaving behind fine, pearly, sweet crystals. Often sugar is made especially white by filtering it through charred bovine bones--a refining process that causes vegetarians and vegans to seek other options. And while brown sugar is ostensibly brown because of the molasses content, much of the brown sugar sold in supermarkets (especially sugar that comes from beets) is really what's called painted sugar, or white sugar that has been sprayed with a brown-colored syrup...
...runs more smoothly when the bizarre, the supernatural, and the downright impossible are delivered deadpan and unexplained. In this mode we meet a kaleidoscopic whirl of characters: scientist grandparents who invent an Inconsumable Taco to end Mexican hunger, man-eating apocalyptic coyotes, and Machiavellian politicians who hide microchips in sugar to read opponents’ minds over morning coffee. Christopher’s voice leaps in style from snake oil charlatan to coke addict to dyspeptic political pundit. A prenatal savant, he fires off puns and bawdy jokes with a facility alternately Shakespearean and sophomoric. While the narrator never loses...
...making but it is too wide to really incite appreciation as a grouping of photographs. Bookended by William Henry Jackson’s 1890 photograph, “Canon of Grand River, Utah” and Alex Webb’s contemporary color photograph “Guard at Sugar Plantation, Outside Kampala Uganda,” the collection spotlights more historical subjects such as political campaigning in 1956. The collection is certainly interesting from a photographical and technical perspective, but out of the three sections evokes the least emotional response to the prints. Without a more academic appreciation...
...scene. Maybe next time they could hide a pile of burritos somewhere in the periodicals section of Widener. Yes, this is the state of fun at Harvard. Still, the real question is whether the Lamont 24/5 party was a celebration of student advocacy, as intended, or a low blood sugar-induced bum rush. It only took a few minutes of watching Harvard students stream out of Lamont with entire chocolate cakes leaking from within the inside flaps of their jackets to realize that the focus was squarely on all things edible. This represents an incredible opportunity...