Word: wined
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...banking, man. But man, that shit is soulless.”“I know, man,” his conversation partner replied.This process seemed to go on for hours and hours. Identical looking people would come up to me, swill cheap wine and smoke in my face. Then they would talk about how soulless investment banking is, as if no one since Engels had ever had that conversation.When the party seemed to be winding down into a discussion of obscure bands, I lunged out the door.Later, as I mulled it all over, I realized there is something admirable...
...years of working on the show in Los Angeles, he says, he longed for the "griminess of the stand-up world." Even today, he says, "whenever I have the opportunity to go to an old bar in New York that has that smell-that beer-soaked wood, that cheap-wine smell-I just swoon...
...those accustomed to the typical North African couscous of Paris (moist yellow semolina granules doused with spicy stew - fast, cheap and filling), Wally's $55 Tuareg banquet is a camel of a different color. Diners have one choice: red wine or white. The set menu is a cavalcade of flavors so perfectly balanced that it hasn't changed in 30 years. First is chorba, a spicy tomato soup rich enough to restore life even after a day fighting the hordes at Versailles. A refined pastilla, a sweet-savory pigeon pastry dusted with cinnamon and sugar, floods the senses with visions...
...nouvelle cuisine, paving the way for a series of victories in French cooking contests that culminated in a fourth-place finish in the 1987 Trophée des Amateurs Gourmands in Lyon, France. “The contest itself was secondary to having a good time with food and wine for a week,” Pavloff says of his adventure abroad. “It was this week of sloth and debauchery.” Pavloff moonlighted as a chef in Boston during his senior year, but didn’t pursue the culinary arts as a profession...
...lives; they are the swords by which we live or die. So, should a two-minute TV commercial or a random website that sways the patient sway the orthopedic surgeon too? The answer is obvious - and it was embodied in my patient. Old Nick's confidence in his wine-drinking, Persian-stopping heritage told me it would be wise to have a little more confidence...