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Considering the alternatives, chefs are nonetheless generally happy to use at least some farm products. Even Bouley buys some farmed oysters. At Manhattan's 21 Club, chef Michael Lomonaco is extravagant in praise of cultivated scallops, raised on Cape Cod -- "beautiful, absolutely delicious." Al Falchi, who owns the Waterfront Restaurant in San Francisco, buys farmed fish because "you never know how long a wild fish has been sitting on the boat." Perhaps the last word should go to Paul Constantin of New Orleans, who has ridden the catfish wave at his nouvelle Creole restaurant, Constantin's. "Tourists come here...
...Francisco's Marina district, where high-priced homes suffered heavy damage because many had been built on unstable landfills, low-rise apartment buildings still stand empty behind temporary scaffolding, awaiting new, reinforced foundations. The city's double-deck Embarcadero Freeway, which skirts the waterfront, remains closed. The board of supervisors voted narrowly to tear down the eyesore rather than rebuild it. But demolition has not yet begun because the city needs federal financing for much of the $135 million it will cost to replace the structure with a highway that runs partly underground...
...John Bowers, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in several recent prosecutions for taking payoffs and even soliciting a murder. In February, a decade after UNIRAC, the U.S. filed a civil racketeering suit that seeks to have trustees oversee elections and to permanently bar Genovese operatives from the waterfront...
...years Hoboken, N.J., has awakened to the rich smell of coffee roasting at the Maxwell House factory on the town's famous waterfront. But last week the Philip Morris subsidiary announced that the factory, which has 600 employees and ranks as the city's largest industrial employer, will close in 1992. Like other brands, Maxwell House has suffered from the decline in U.S. coffee consumption. On average, Americans now drink 1.75 cups a day, roughly half their intake in 1962. Younger consumers favor soft drinks...
...Marsalis keep getting better? His latest trip to the studio, this time accompanied by his father Ellis on piano, has produced what may be Wynton's best recording to date. His breathy lyricism on such standards as Where or When, The Very Thought of You, and I Cover the Waterfront will surprise those who dismiss the young man from New Orleans as a dazzling but cold technician...