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...same could be said of the New York restaurant scene. Over the past decade, Japanese cuisine has seeped beyond the midtown sushi bars and into restaurants no diner would label Japanese, where the chefs are blond and the menus are in English. Kitchens are likely to begin a meal with salted edamame (soybean) in place of dinner rolls, serve fish raw rather than deep-fried and use soba instead of linguine. Sometimes the influence is as subtle as a drop of lemony ponzu whisked into a vinaigrette; other times it's as in-your-face as mashed potatoes creamed with...
...Blairs are among 75 owners and 12 prospective buyers lined up for condos priced from $2 million to $6.8 million. In the bigger picture, though, they are part of a well-heeled, spending-friendly stratum of society that marketers circle like cats at a sushi bar, proffering exclusive riding clubs in the West or 400-year-old farmhouses in Italy. The minimum net worth for the World's condo buyers is $5 million, an elite group that marketers call "penta-millionaires." The niche might seem rarefied, but data issued in February by the Spectrem Group estimate that...
...comics' "complex story lines, characters, sophisticated dialogue and drawings. The amount of information is astonishing." In the U.S., Japanese bookstores such as Kinokuniya in New York City carry a bilingual version of Division Chief Kosaku Shima. A book about the comics, with samples, is called Bringing Home the Sushi, available at Amazon.com...
...Daniel Mao, chief operating officer of Sina, sits in a Japanese restaurant in Beijing jabbing at his sushi and coolly dissecting the fate of the industry. "Some will get bought, some will go broke," he predicts. "It will all be happening in the next nine months." A former venture capitalist, Mao engineered Sina's creation by arranging a merger between a U.S. Internet start-up and a Chinese software company. Soon he may preside over its resale. Mao contemplates the latest street buzz: AOL is rumored to be trying to acquire community portal Netease, while Microsoft is said...
...Roots, Angie Stone and Raphael Saadiq. The result: an album that is part basement-funk, part hip-hop?and all slammin' grooves. "You can smell the soul," he says, "and you can feel the temperature like hip-hop. But at the same time you can taste something like sushi...