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...York City and French Laundry in Yountville, Calif. Keller offers diners nine varieties--including an ancient Jurassic salt extracted from a Montana copper mine and the jet black Molokai salt, which gets its color from volcanic ash and pairs well with foie gras. He even tops his chocolate caramel dessert with fleur de sel from Brittany...
...father could rely on a daily catch totaling about 65 lbs. (30 kg). When the water gods were feeling particularly charitable, he would land a Mekong catfish, a massive bottom-feeder that can weigh as much as a tiger. But today, when Bun Neang dips his net into the caramel-hued waters near Chong Koh village, all the 30-year-old can hope for is a few kilos of sardine-sized fish. Overfishing is partly to blame. But Bun Neang knows of another reason Tonle Sap's big game have all but disappeared. "China," he says of the country that...
...total is expected to double again this year. Whereas banks barely break even now on such business, McKinsey estimates by 2013, China's consumer credit card profits could hit $1.6 billion. Indeed, at a Shenzhen Starbucks, I watched as a young woman paid for her caramel macchiato with a Beijing Olympics-branded Visa, one of what seemed to be several cards she had in her wallet. We were just down the block, but Luohu's bustling cash trade seemed a universe away...
Aged rum's surprising similarity to Cognac--the complex flavors and aromas of oak, caramel and vanilla, the hints of tobacco and leather--is what first grabs most enthusiasts. But because rum is fermented from sugarcane juice, syrup or molasses, it offers a sweet bonus: tropical essences like banana, pineapple and coconut. Known as ron aņejo in Spanish and rhum vieux in French, aged rums are blends of stock as old as 30 years, stored in oak. (Solera on the labels refers to the blending process.) The Caribbean climate accelerates aging, giving the rums more tannins and spice. Retail...
...course, if caramel and raisin don't sound like torchworthy qualities for wine, that's because J.W. Lees isn't a wine. It's a beer, one of about two dozen on Gramercy Tavern's new vintage-beer list...