Word: vanilla
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Sure, I was going to Tokyo for work, but my mind was focused on cream puffs - specifically, the ones whose sublime vanilla-bean-flecked custard nestles in a cradle of chocolate choux. During a trip to Japan last year, I had eaten a not insignificant number of these pastries, and I relished the opportunity to reacquaint myself with their virtues. But when I sidled up to a Tokyo store's cream-puff section - yes, there is a fridge shelf dedicated to this particular genre of baked goods in many Japanese groceries - to my great distress, my favorite dessert was nowhere...
...This system was designed for plain vanilla loans, and we were trying to push chocolate sundaes through the gears.' MARC GOTT, former director in Fannie Mae's loan-servicing department, explaining the company's collapse...
...line by myself. To this day, I shudder at the thought of making pastry cream—I’ve pretty much discovered every way there is to mess up a recipe that has only five ingredients. But things got easier. Italian suddenly clicked. I could eye my vanilla gelato to see how much longer it needed in the mixer and judge the doneness of my frittata by its firmness. After slicing watermelon every morning for breakfast, I could wield a knife as deftly as a pencil. I could give porcini mushrooms a sponge bath with my eyes closed...
Whose music is it anyway? Adults are always trying to find out what kids are up to, replicate it, and then sell it back to them. The kids like rap? Let's give them Vanilla Ice! Usually the youth-oriented products that adults come up with are all too obviously a grownup's conception of what a young person wants. The suits are, after all, suits. Getting a handle on youthful culture is like trying to hold onto one's adolescence. It slips away -- it's meant...
...True to form, Harris relies upon bagels and lox to provide fuel for the members of the Gen Ed committee. For his own busy life, Harris abstains from coffee—he said he doesn’t like the taste. Instead, he drinks vanilla chai and Diet Coke: “the drug delivery system of choice...