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...suspenders.The Stable Boy pushed her away. His lips curving into a smile, he handed her the tatters of her ripped-open dress. Felicity tossed it aside, incapable of speech. Then she turned and stumbled back towards the house stark naked, her feet squelching in the mud.In the barn, The Stable Boy continued to sharpen the scythe. “One takes one’s pleasure where one can find it,” he said softly. He gave the scythe one final stroke. This time, it threw off sparks.Thus concludes Part I of The Stable Boy. Lesley R. Winters?...
...Frederick’s voice could be heard through the slats of the barn wall. “You shall be rewarded handsomely for this,” he gasped...
Dangereux didn't explicitly say he was finding the whole high-class restaurant thing pretentious. But what he did was to take over a small replica barn in a rustic-style shopping center in one of Cape Town's more distant suburbs, floor it with linoleum and call it the Food Barn. The result may be the best value fine dining on the continent, if not anywhere. Imagine half a dozen sensational oysters for $5. The perfect Japanese-style tuna tartare for $8. A bouillabaisse terrine set on mussels and a creamy saffron sauce for $10. Dangereux even persuaded...
...setting is modest, too. Pine chairs and tables at one end of the barn; at the other, a deli selling more Dangereux delights, such as home-made breads and harissa mayonnaise. Every so often, the chef himself will emerge in surfer shorts and flip-flops. No longer dangereux to your wallet, but lethal to the notion that haute cuisine has to be haughty. www.thefoodbarn.co.za
During the bike-riding craze of the 1970s, businessman Richard Burke, an avid runner, sensed a market for a high-quality, American-made bike to compete with then dominant Japanese imports. In 1976 in a red barn in Waterloo, Wis., Burke started Trek with five employees. Trek, the bike on which Lance Armstrong rode to his Tour de France victories, is now the country's largest bikemaker. Burke was 73 and died of complications following heart surgery...