Less Dead Than Harding

Republican applause lines must be in short supply. During Rove's tenure, Bush has gone from "Better Than Reagan" to "Better Than Nixon" to "Less Dead Than Harding." Rove will live to spin another day, but he ought to be having a bad case of survivor's guilt. ... More

NY Times: Food

A Champagne True to Its Roots
By ERIC ASIMOV

AY, France

IT'S a rainy-day fantasy to imagine what might have been. What if Lincoln had not gone to the theater? If Lennon had not met McCartney? If J.F.K. had gone to Detroit instead of to Dallas? If phylloxera had not ravaged the grapevines of Europe? More

Blossom to Table: Honey Grows Up
By DANA BOWEN

TED DENNARD, founder of the Savannah Bee Company, says 2004 produced the best orange blossom honey the South has seen in decades.

But you never know. "Last year was an awful year for basswood," said Zeke Freeman, owner of Bee Raw Honey, blaming an early summer drought in New York. More

Spices by the Handful, Not by the Pinch
By JULIA MOSKIN

ANA SORTUN, the chef at Oleana restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., finished culinary school in Paris in 1988. But the education of her palate wasn't complete, she said, until she apprenticed herself to the Tunisian chef Moncef Meddeb in Boston, then began traveling to Turkey and Greece in the 1990's. More