Caviar

Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more. The British musician who penned these words was not writing for a fantastical--out of the world song when he penned these, rather he was speaking his heart out about his love for food and dining. Indeed, fine dining is a high art and the chefs are the true artists. There have been many maestros in the culinary stage. From Michel Guérard to Paul Bocuse to Jiro Ono. Here’s a list of world’s most justifiably revered chefs of…

Happiness by Living Life Simply Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel 1988), centers around Martine and Philippa, two sisters living in a protestant parish in Jutland. For them, food is used for sustenance rather than pleasure. Unexpectedly, a refugee from Paris shows up at their doorstep. The woman’s name is Babette and she is taken in by the two sisters. Having lost everything at the hands of a vengeful revolution, Babette rebuilds her life around the bland gastronomy of the parsonage. As a famous…

Consumerism Consumes Us Several different forms of literature, such as novels and movies, can teach audiences about the meaning of life, while giving people ideas about how they should live their life. The movie, Dawn of the Dead, by George A. Romero, and the novel, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley greatly intertwine to send a strong message about the values of most people in our American society today, and about how this new set of beliefs changed ourselves and our society from the strong one…

nest soup to their guests. Birds nest soup is exactly what it sounds like: a birds nest, cooked with broth, vegetables, and usually chicken. It is just as expensive and upper class as shark fin soup. In fact, it has often been referred to as “the caviar of the East”. Birds nest soup does far less harm to animal populations and the environment. Nests are only harvested after the swiftlets are old enough to live on their own. No eggs are collected or damaged in the process. The dish has all the…

Individuals were trying to create a business for themselves in the town by divulging in the idea of a “self-made” man (Man, Lecture Sept. 3). Each individual store and business played a pivotal role in providing for the town. The image wanted to capture the essence of the town and it showed people that the town could provide for people’s needs. I think by showing that Dodge City had ammunition and firearm stores, it shows people that they could protect themselves, because during 1875 many…

According to Webster’s Third New International Dictionary glamour is ‘an allusive, mysteriously exciting and often illusory attractiveness that stirs the imagination and appeals to a taste for the unconventional, the unexpected or the exotic’ and further expands upon this interpretation with a second meaning: ‘a strangely alluring magnetic charm… personal charm and poise combined with usual physical and sexual attractiveness’. It is decidedly different from beauty, which one can simply inherit.…

It is 1:00 am and I am up trying to produce a beat. My mom wakes up and tells me to shut off the computer and go to sleep. I refuse and stay up late to finish the beat that I am going to finish for my client. Have you ever wonder who and how your favorite song was composed? Have you ever wonder the skills it takes to create such a record that can be heard in the radio? Do you know anything that goes on when making a record? Do you know what it takes to become a record producer? To become a…

Though in recent decades, the movie industry has made a shift to seem more gender neutral. However, underneath the façade of equality, movies like Monster-in-Law have anti-feminist undertones. It has anti-feminist undertones such as women's lesser job status, the need to have a man in a woman's life, the over-focus on a woman's body, and the lack of relationships between women. Monster-in-Law perpetuates the gender stereotype that women are lesser than men. Monster-in-Law, the 2005 rom-com from…

ordinary household appliances, or a water supply. For residents of wealthy cities, districts may become a luxury sports car of the latest generation. Luxury goods also divided into different groups. For some it may be, for example, ham, and for others - caviar. Luxury as can be determined, for example, a…

Anthony Bourdain was born on June 25, 1956 in New York and grew up in Leonia, New Jersey. He attended Vassar College for two years and graduated from the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America in 1978. Bourdain then moved back to New York, where he worked as a chef in several kitchens such as the Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue, and Sullivan’s and later became an executive chef at Brasserie Le Halles, French Bistro steakhouse in 1998. Bourdain’s career as a restaurant chef gave him…