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Michelin, Get Out of the Kitchen!
Vanity Fair, by A.A. Gill
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Posted By:StormCnter, 10/7/2012 2:07:03 PM
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| A little more than a hundred years ago, a pair of brothers invented the food guide. It was an inadvertent invention. What they thought they’d done was compile a directory of places in France where you could grab a baguette and a bed for the night while some rural blacksmith or farrier tried to mend your broken-down Boitel, Motobloc, Otto, or Lacoste & Battmann. The brothers, Édouard and André Michelin, made pneumatic tires and were staring down the road at the biggest blue-sky start-up industry of the new century. The Michelin guide turned out to be prescient and inspired.
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Comments:
There have been suicides over a lost star.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
TunnelRat, 10/7/2012 3:12:33 PM (No. 8916251)
Yeah, OP, we can only wish...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mushroom, 10/7/2012 3:44:04 PM (No. 8916294)
Can one even count the number of faux celebs/has beens that have committed suicide because their time is up?
Having said that, proper chefs deserve respect. If they can please with a nice meal, more power to them. I wouldn't enjoy some place that tosses a baby carrot and a couple of slivers of something on a plate calling it art. I want taste. I want to walk away from a meal satisfied, not feeling like I have to hit Chick-fil-A on the way home. I want texture. I want to eat somewhere the chef would actually eat his ( her) own cooking every day. I'm not there to feed your ego and pay you for the privilege.
I like Anthony Bourdain. I just do. He seems to have a grasp of real food based on local tastes. I am NOT a foodie, I can't afford to go out anymore and I can't stand long enough to cook. I live on microwave meals, but I dream of eating real food.
Those of you providing a dream on a plate, I salute you!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Susannah, 10/7/2012 3:51:15 PM (No. 8916305)
#1, could you clarify whom you wish to see commit suicide?
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Jihad Blows Up
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Source: Boston bomb suspect says
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The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were not licensed to have the firearms they used in several shootouts with police on Friday, Reuters reported Sunday night.The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws – an issue that was put on the back-burner last week after the Senate blocked the central elements of a gun-control package backed by President Obama. Because Massachusetts state law bars handgun ownership for those younger than 21, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, age 26, was the only brother who could have
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts police official say the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon before having shootouts with authorities didn´t have gun permits. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas tells The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that neither Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE´-ehv) nor his brother Dzhokhar had permission to carry firearms. He says it´s unclear whether either ever applied and the applications aren´t considered public records.
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George W. Bush will return to the spotlight this week for the dedication of his presidential library, an event likely to trigger fresh public debate about his eight fateful years in office. But he reemerges with a better public image than when he left Washington more than four years ago. Since then, Bush has absented himself from both policy disputes and political battles. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests that the passage of time and Bush’s relative invisibility have been beneficial to a chief executive who left office surrounded by controversy.
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REP. KEITH ELLISON (D-MINN.): Well, you know, it is too early for me to second-guess the FBI. I think we need to know more about what they knew. The fact of the matter is that it is good that they contacted him. That wasn´t enough to deter him, obviously. But the fact is that before I’m going to say the FBI should have done something different, what I, I’m not prepared to say that yet. There is just not enough information. What I will say is this: We don´t know what their motivation was yet.
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In a statement marking Earth Day, Secretary of State John Kerry pledges to deal "responsibly with the clear and present danger of climate change." The former presidential candidate also notes the "fragile planet we share with the rest of humanity and which we must protect for future generations.""The United States joins countries around the world today in commemorating Earth Day. Ever since I was involved in the first Earth Day in Massachusetts, way back in 1970, this has always been a day to reflect on our environmental challenges and our responsibility to safeguard our God-given natural resources
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Why did it take the FBI four
days to find the Boston bombers,
when they had one ´on file´ already?
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Telegraph [UK], by Peter Foster
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/21/2013 3:47:57 PM
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Lots of “tough questions” are being asked about why the FBI--having interviewed the older Boston bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in 2011--failed to continue to keep tabs on him. But that is the wrong question to be asking. The much more pressing question is: why the FBI didn’t nab the bombers on Monday night? After all, they hadn’t skipped town, and one of them--Tamerlan--was sitting "on file" as someone whom the Russian government said they suspected was an Islamist terrorist. A man they repeatedly interviewed just two years ago. Why did no one check those files, within minutes of the
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National Review Online The Corner, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/23/2013 6:55:51 AM
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Apparently the latest craze in NYC is to let your babies’ freak flags fly by letting them go commando: When Jada Shapiro decided to raise her daughter from birth without diapers, for the most part, not everyone was amused. Ms. Shapiro scattered little bowls around the house to catch her daughter’s offerings, and her sister insisted that she use a big, dark marker to mark the bowls so that they could never find their way back to the kitchen. But “elimination communication,” as the diaper-free method of child-rearing is called,
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