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...alike. "When you look at most breakfast foods, they taste pretty darn good," says, John Nihoff, a professor of gastronomy at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., who points to the growing interest in gourmet variations on breakfast stalwarts, such as the new Iberico ham from Spain, which comes from pigs that are fed only acorns. Meanwhile, more chefs are discovering that serving breakfast foods after noon doesn't have to mean going downscale. "Anyone can serve breakfast food at dinner. If I slapped French toast on the menu that wouldn't mean anything, but paired with...
CAUDALIE, THE 11-YEAR-OLD French skin-care line known for its grape-seed-extract antiaging formula, is expanding its offerings. The company celebrated the opening of its fourth Vinotherapie Spa in grand fashion last month in Rioja, Spain. King Juan Carlos I toured the spa alongside über-architect Frank Gehry, who designed the accompanying Marqués de Riscal Hotel as a sweeping homage to the local culture. The enormous titanium roof is sculpted in the shape of a flamenco skirt and tinged to match the pink and gold shades of vintage wine bottles...
...technology isn't cheap: installing the ClimateWell system costs roughly $25,000 in Spain, $10,000 more than standard combined heating and cooling systems. But going solar would slice $130 off the monthly energy bill of a standard home, says Per Olofsson, CEO of ClimateWell. And with electricity and gas prices rocketing, users would be "much less vulnerable to fluctuations in the future." Moreover, without leaning heavily on traditional sources of fuel (the pumps forcing the salt and water around the machine are electric but use only 100 watts), the average home could reduce carbon dioxide output by 13 tons...
...will home and building owners make the trade-off? The firm has launched its product in Spain, targeting the developers of some 200,000 single-family homes it says are being built in the country each year. Olofsson expects the first ClimateWell systems to be running in 2008-09, and says homes and businesses in warmer climates from Indonesia to South America offer great potential for the company. "Our core value is to find solutions that enable people to live lives they live today, but in a sustainable way," he says. "Changing behavior is more difficult than changing technology...
...this plan seems, well, too lax, then take heart in knowing we're still beating the rest of the world. If they gave Olympic medals for shoving kids out the door the fastest, we'd still be on the podium. In countries like Japan and Italy and Spain, about 70% of children aged 25 to 34 still live at home. Here it's only 11%. Cue the national anthem...