lsanderson | Apr. 1st, 2009

Apr. 1st, 2009

NOT LAMB, NOT BEEF... Goat meat is a staple in many cuisines around the world but only recently has become a novelty at restaurants in Manhattan and elsewhere.
By HENRY ALFORD
Published: March 31, 2009

YOU never know where goat will take you. When I asked the smiley butcher at Jefferson Market, the grocery store near my apartment in the West Village, whether he had any goat meat, he told me: “No. I got a leg of lamb, though — I could trim it nice and thin to make it look like goat.” I politely declined. We fell into conversation.
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THE WOBBLE THAT WOOS Sam Bompas, left, and Harry Parr of London are seeking to make jelly fashionable again by creating imaginative molds. More Photos >
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: March 31, 2009

SAM BOMPAS and Harry Parr have built painstakingly correct models of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral and Millennium Bridge, and a Madrid airport terminal complete with tiny airplanes. More

Somebody tell 'em about MN & jello?

By ERIC ASIMOV
Published: April 1, 2009

IF you’ve already heard me sing the song of German riesling in the springtime, you’ll have to forgive me. But it’s a song that bears repeating — at least annually — because it simply is a perfect seasonal melody in almost all of its manifestations. More

By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: March 31, 2009

Dig deeply enough into a 1,000-page book and you never know what you will find. “Chocolate: History, Culture and Heritage” is a scholarly tome, full of articles on chocolate’s connection to anthropology, agriculture, religion, ethics, art, medicine and technology. But it offers plenty of surprises, too, like the explanation of how chocolate was a recommended treatment for smallpox in Boston in the 18th century. And how in the winter of 1762-63, soldiers near Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York often mixed their ration of chocolate with wine. More

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Senate recount trial: Judges' ruling good news for Franken; Coleman side says appeal is now certain
Analysis by Jay Weiner | Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Today's ruling by the Al Franken-Norm Coleman three-judge panel to open and count as many as 400 ballots wasn’t shocking or earthshaking. More