Word: teas
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...something a little more sophisticated, there's Restaurant Bobby Chinn (www.bobbychinn.com). The star of Hanoi's growing foodie set, owner-chef Bobby Chinn offers first-class food at developing-world prices, with entrees like aromatic green tea-smoked duck and braised pigeon wrapped in rice paper. The eclectic and lavish setting - including a red-silk hookah lounge with suspended white roses - reflects Chinn's Egyptian-Chinese-Kiwi roots. The origin of the popular codeine-tablet cocktail is less clear...
...modern and often fusion inventions, many of them created to suit foreign tastes. A kaiseki banquet consists of multiple elaborate minicourses of rare seasonal ingredients, most unknown outside Japan. More than a meal, it's a multidisciplinary feast for the senses. Since it has roots in the Zen tea ceremony, kaiseki encompasses literature, ceramics, ikebana, painting and the art of dinner conversation. It requires some cultural literacy, not to mention deep pockets. It also requires sitting on the floor for hours and decent chopstick skills...
Peet’s Coffee & Tea on Mt. Auburn Street attributes the pace of its service to the “bump bar,” a screen above the drink counter that displays orders as they are placed...
...blushes, bronzers, eye shadows and lipsticks) in a subtle palette she had been unable to find. "A woman can eat 5 lbs. [2 kg] of lipstick over her life," says Marrone. "Our lipsticks only have nourishing extracts like shea butter and orange." They also have antioxidant ingredients like green tea, making them functional as well as beautiful. New York City's Bergdorf Goodman was so impressed that the store added the line this winter. And Organic Pharmacy will open a shop in Los Angeles, where white-coated pharmacists will be on hand to mix creams and offer advice. Just what...
...India, tea has always been more than a business. Tea drinking is as much a part of the national culture as playing cricket or watching Bollywood movies. And like those other Indian institutions, it is changing rapidly. Nearly half the population is under 25, and young people have been drinking more coffee and cola, leaving the tea in their parents' drawing rooms. Teamakers are trying to woo them back with home brew--whether instant, iced or canned, black, green or white...