Word: asparagus
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...flips through cooking magazines and watches the Food Network, then adapts recipes or "change[s] them drastically" to suit the family's palates. "I work with my kids to find out what their taste will tolerate," he says. "So now I do a soy broccoli and a pan-seared asparagus with lemon, and they love it. I also really try to make sure they think that cooking is fun. Kids who grow up feeling shunned in the kitchen end up not liking the kitchen. They start feeling like, 'I'm outta here; guess I'll go play video games...
...sampling molecules (which look like Pop Rocks candy and smell intensely of their source) and learning the chemical connections between them, Blumenthal was freed to go off on the creative jags he calls "flavor pairings." White chocolate and caviar, foie gras and jasmine, asparagus and licorice all have molecular commonalities that keep them from clashing and, when properly paired, can lead to electric new tastes. Any food scientist knows that mustard and red cabbage contain mustard oil, but it was Blumenthal who put in the endless hours that led to Pommery-mustard ice cream in red-cabbage gazpacho...
Andrew Malcolm, an American son of Canadian immigrants, remembers with warmth his first visits to his parents' homeland. Canada in the 1940s and '50s, he says, was a quiet and rustic place, with "swarthy Indians living just down the dusty, curbless road, chickens clucking by an asparagus field, pictures of funny little crowns on mailboxes, stamps and road signs." Even then, he recalls, Canada was "very familiar, very friendly and very nice, but different...
...customers of summer barbeques by the pool. The shop makes over 300 soups over the course of the year, with chicken noodle being the fan favorite. And even vegetarians will have no problem warming up at Leo’s—head right for the soups, where artichoke, asparagus and lentil selections will afford you the opportunity to eat with your hamburger-munching pals...
...what do you know? Last night we played host to members of the next generation from Mary?s side of the family: Colton Anderson, 8, and his friend Arden Richelle, 9. At our local restaurant, the Odeon - three stars in the 1986 Britchky guide - Colton had a bowl of asparagus soup with snails, and instantly endeared himself to me by laughing at a very old joke. (Punch line: ?Look at that ?S? car go!?) Then their mother and Aunt Donna took them to their first Broadway show, ?Beauty and the Beast.? They loved it! The kids now have...