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...small, round, firm cookie. Smell The cookie's scent is something of a turn-off. When in the Pain, go for eau de Sweet Cheese croissant instead. Nonexistent, really. Perfect. Not too high, not too low. Cinnamon stench. Scrumptious. Pleasant Chip-to-Dough Ratio Out of control. Said one taster. "A tremendous amount of chocolate." "Too doughy." This is mere Star Market material--"you can taste the preservatives." Poor. Minimal chip action Great. Lots of chocolate taste, yet not overpowering. Wonderful. "The chocolate taste comes right through." General Observations Exotic chocolate flavor. Not your basic milk-chocolate. Far from chocolate...
...hard to settle on a defining moment that sums up our ambivalence. Perhaps the best symbol of growing harmony in an increasingly surreal world is that the two lonelyhearts in the Taster's Choice commercial finally hooked up. It looks like we're in for a couple more decades of pseudo-happiness, so we'd better learn to enjoy...
...California sparkling wine made especially for the occasion. The bubbly blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir was made by the Iron Horse Vineyards in Sonoma County, Calif., just west of -- you guessed it -- the Russian River. Gary Walters, chief usher at the White House, serving as First Wine Taster, made the selection. "The Soviets enjoy a little more sugar in their sparkling wines," says Walters. So the White House asked the winery to sweeten three cases of its Iron Horse 1987 Brut ($21). This was Iron Horse's third summit: it was served in Geneva in 1985, when Ronald Reagan...
...fiction, A Dove of the East and Refiner's Fire, he has seemed on the point of accomplishing marvels. He has also seemed -- notably in Winter's Tale, an overblown fantasy starring an annoying magical horse -- to be a posturer incapable of modulating eloquence or intensity, a too appreciative taster of his own words, a gifted windbag...
...await his thrice-yearly tasting visits with the same trepidation that restaurateurs have for the annual Le Guide Michelin ratings. Craig Goldwyn, editor of the rival International Wine Review, says Parker has "one of the greatest palates ever to walk the earth," although some writers complain that as a taster he favors strength over subtlety. (Parker, of course, denies it.) His critics also carp that his success is based primarily on a 50-to-100-point rating system for wines that is fast becoming a popular industry standard. Wine merchants across the country know that advertising a vintage with...