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...Angel investor Peter Thiel throws One Million User Party at Frisson (San Francisco...
...tickets, dinners, or the new sport utility vehicle that investors looking to cash in on the project would eventually throw Zuckerberg’s way. They did not imagine that this fall one of these investors would reward their success with a party at his posh San Francisco club, Frisson, where champagne and caviar are menu standards. They did not anticipate a personal meeting with the CEOs of Friendster and Google—or that they would soon take time off Harvard to share a house in California with the co-founder of Napster. And they certainly did not guess...
...Aroma is the central ingredient at Frisson, San Francisco's newest culinary hot spot, where both dishes and drinks are infused with fragrance. Chef Daniel Patterson has created recipes that use essential oils derived from such ingredients as saffron, grapefruit and coriander. Scented syrups, sugars and salts are melded into dishes like green tea-scented chicken soup and pork chops with coffee fig sauce, as well as specialty cocktails like the Fountain of Youth, whose ingredients include lime vodka, fresh cucumber-and-honeydew puree and essence of spearmint. Peers such as acclaimed chef David Kinch of the restaurant Manresa...
Aroma is the central ingredient at Frisson, San Francisco's newest culinary hot spot, where both dishes and drinks are infused with fragrance. Chef Daniel Patterson has created recipes that use essential oils derived from such ingredients as saffron, grapefruit and cilantro. Scented syrups, sugars and salts are melded into dishes like green tea-- scented chicken soup and pork chops with coffee fig sauce, as well as specialty cocktails like the Fountain of Youth, whose ingredients include lime vodka, fresh cucumber and honeydew puree and essence of spearmint. Peers say Patterson is breaking new ground in the way he employs...
...delicate xylophone arpeggio rises above the earthier glockenspiel, perhaps symbolizing Worthington's character Joe. But it's not all so harmonious. For Rough Sex, Decoder Ring provide a jarring guitar riff to accompany one of Heidi's teenage tumbles. It lasts barely three minutes. Elsewhere in Somersault, the frisson between image and sound is pure cinema. "Cate's a real lover of music and we're real lovers of film," FitzGerald says of their match made in moody heaven...