Chocolate Souffle
by lz in x: Food & Drink on 30Aug2003
1/2 cup cream 5 oz chocolate heat cream, melt chocolate 3 egg whites, whisked with 1 tablespoon sugar fold in chocolate/cream mixture bake 12 minutes 350 degrees courtesy of Jacques Pepin, the recipe makes a "moist" souffle according to Julia Child. She is absolutely right. Delicious!...
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Daniel Burnham's extraordinary effort to build the White City for the Columbian Exposition, Chicago's answer to the Parisian First World's Fair. H. H. Holmes (nee Herman Mudgett) and his murder castle, luring single young women to their deaths by chloroform and gas. The Chicago fair of 1893 brought hordes of...
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Square Sanders
by lz in x: Eyes Open on 15Aug2003
At the table across from us at San Tung was a gentleman wearing a white polo shirt with an intriguing logo: "Square Sanders." This classification fit him so well that I don't even need to describe what he looked like. But I will. A shortish, balding man with glasses and...
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On our way home from dinner in the Sunset, Matt and I cut through Golden Gate park to return to the Richmond. Our path took us by the baseball fields, which when passed earlier that night were alive with activity. Night falling had forced players and spectators alike to find...
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Popcorn!?
by lz in x: Screen: TV on 04Aug2003
A man's journey to fulfill his dream of getting into the Guinness Book of World Records. Aaron Fischer's quest for world's largest popcorn container. Check out the website. I saw this documentary over a year ago on KTEH, channel 54, on video i. see it if you get the chance....
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Johnny Depp cements his status as best actor in his 30s with this role and basically carries the movie. Minimal cheese, so overall a delightful fantasy on screen. This is what movies SHOULD be. Hooray for pirates. Hooray that Orlando Bloom got to re-use his swordsmanship training from LOTR for...
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Winged Migration
by lz in x: Screen: Cinema on 03Aug2003
Birds in flight, migrating north in the spring and south in the fall. It is glorious to behold, with no special effects, but breathtaking shots achieved with mini-helicopters and hot air balloons. Cranes moments before landing, with their legs outstretched and flailing; penguins swimming enmasse, like salmon going upstream to...
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