Word: tiramisu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funny: I can engage in all sorts of fun, perilous activities like riding my motorcycle in Manhattan, catching ultraviolet rays in California or playing racquetball without goggles, and no one admonishes me "for my own good." But I order one slice of tiramisu and it triggers all kinds of unsolicited solicitousness. Thanks for the concern, gang, but for me that tiramisu and the freedom to enjoy it are--like music, the theater and friends--an essential part of what gives quality to my life...
...successfully navigated the tightrope between savory and overwhelmingly rich. Sauteed spinach counteracts the succulent sweetness of the meat, and the slightly viscous sauce lends itself perfectly to the thick slices of flour-dusted farm bread. Desserts include a rich, dense chocolate cake, sorbet, creme caramel and the old-standby, tiramisu. Creme caramel is almost, but not quite, too sweet, bathed in a delicate sauce of caramelized sugar. Tiramisu is traditional, favoring the rum-soaked ladyfingers over the sometimes overbearing mascarpone cream. Dinner for two, including wine, appetizers, entrees and dessert, rings in at a steep $45-50 per person, though...
BOSTON---Eyeing cases filled with cannoli and tiramisu, the after-church crowd stands in long lines at Mike's Pastry, waiting to indulge in sugary desserts and fond memories...
...contrast, the prix fixe menu in the statelyupstairs dining room, which includes beeftenderloin and tiramisu, is about double theprice...
Brown evokes the sleek surrealism of Tokyo--where dogs are rented by the hour and people eat green-tea tiramisu cake--with economical aplomb. Even better, he offsets such Tomorrowland aspects with lyrical images of Toshi's rural home, where women eat grilled eel while watching Audrey Hepburn and go looking for candleweed and ghost mushrooms. Toshi is as much a foreigner in Tokyo as any American might be, yet his two worlds are knit together with an exacting precision, with fishermen's nets "the color of dried persimmon," and an American's blanket having "the color of squid just...