Archive for May, 2008
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
If you’re worried about the high cost of a summer vacation in these economically trying times, I’ve got the perfect solution: the staycation. That’s right: You don’t even need to pull the car out of the driveway this summer to have a great …
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Towering challenge - Gulf News
Saturday, May 31st, 2008When super chef Alain Ducasse won the contract to operate an upscale restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, he faced a multitude of challenges. How to maximise the tiny space and capitalise on the views? How to complement the structure and capture its sense …
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Superchef Embraces Eiffel’s Towering Challenge - Daily Herald
Saturday, May 31st, 2008PARIS — When French super chef Alain Ducasse won the contract to operate an upscale restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, he faced a multitude of challenges. How to maximize the tiny space and capitalize on the views? How to complement the structure and …
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Last flight of the honeybee? - Guardian Unlimited
Friday, May 30th, 2008Dave Hackenberg’s bees have been on the road for four days. To reach the almond orchards of California’s Central Valley, they pass through the fertile plains of the Mississippi, huge cattle ranches and oilfields in Texas, and the dusty towns of New …
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A Chef Takes His Food Higher Than Ever Before - Washington Post
Friday, May 30th, 2008A Chef Takes His Food Higher Than Ever BeforeWashington Post, United States - May 30, 2008“What we want to achieve is a contemporary interpretation of French food — not futurist, nor retro, but contemporary, to go with the Eiffel Tower in its …
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Bohemian Paris, a la graduate of North Kitsap High - TheNewsTribune.com
Friday, May 30th, 2008Bohemian Paris, a la graduate of North Kitsap HighTheNewsTribune.com, WA - 57 minutes agoLe Louis Vins, the side-street bistro where you’ll get real French food. Moon City, a spa for swingers. The sewer tour. “We thought most of the touristy …
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Bohemian Paris, a la graduate of North Kitsap High - Tacoma News Tribune
Friday, May 30th, 2008Michelle Rogers and I hit it off as soon as I described the afternoon I wandered a section of open-trench sewers running beneath Paris. The acrid odor you get accustomed to over time, the boats dispatched to dredge clogs like polar icebreakers, the …
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Camembert Tests `Raw’ Rule in Appellation d’Origine (Update1) - Bloomberg
Friday, May 30th, 2008When it isn’t made with raw milk, says Bertrand Gillot, owner of Camembert maker Fromagerie Reaux . Larger industrial makers of the white, creamy cheese have asked the government to extend the Appellation d’Origine Controlee designation — France’s …
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Many moods make up stellar Spartan - Watertown Daily Times
Thursday, May 29th, 2008ADAMS CENTER — It’s hard to believe that Than Harrington is capable of a Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation upon meeting him. The affable giant of an athlete, dubbed “Capital T” by his teammates on the South Jefferson boys track and field team, appears …
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Investors in tiny Djibouti think big - International Herald Tribune
Thursday, May 29th, 2008DJIBOUTI : For centuries, nomads have dropped down from the rocky hills around here to carve bricks of salt from an ancient lake and haul them away on the backs of camels. But a new salt miner is trying his hand, and he may be a harbinger of what is …
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