Word: pistachio
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...finely chopped with sun-dried tomatoes and a roasted red pepper sauce and baked in filo pastry. In the same Beyoglu area is Cezayir, www.cezayir-istanbul.com, a restaurant-bar converted from an Italian primary school and a favorite with hipsters. Here, tandoori chicken is served with the unlikely accompaniment of pistachio rice, and liver paté is accented with Aegean herbs...
...been skyrocketing. In 1926, American gourmet A.J. Liebling got his education for 6 francs a feast. Today, anyone in a restaurant with three Michelin stars can expect to gain several kilos and drop several hundred euros. And prices are rising like one of L'Arpège's avocado pistachio soufflés. In 2001, the set menu there cost 1,200 francs (€185); now it's €420 per person - no wonder nice guys from Winnipeg weep into their pinot. OK, so I've been known to spend more on one meal than most would in a week...
...house-made pates, foie gras, and a wide variety of cured meats. On a large wooden table, the restaurant displays other gourmet goods: jars of their sauces and accompaniments, including tomato confit and native cranberry confit, and a special array of Jean-Marc Montegottero virgin oils, pure distillations of pistachio, sesame, and other oils ($28 a bottle...
...hostel for Soviet advisers. Renovations last year uncovered original marble floors and restored the wainscoting. With chandeliers, brass fittings and just two floors of rooms, the Lungmen rates an adjective rarely applied to a Chinese hotel: intimate. My room's floor-to-ceiling windows framed locust trees and pistachio-color Russian buildings; lying on white sheets in a fluffy bed, China felt very far away. That's likely the atmosphere the original colonial owners intended to create...
...presentation. My order of fresh rabbit sausage comes on a bed of shredded carrots: the bunny arrives displayed on its own favorite food. The joke, intentional or not, is soon forgotten for the flavor of the dish. The warm and mild white sausage is shelled in salty crisp pistachio crust, and perks up with the tartness of scattered cranberries...