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Bisque de Homard de Style Classique aux Profiterolles Lobster bisque the way Charles Barrier taught me Ris de Veau en Meurette à la Bourguignonne sur Canapé de Pomme de Terre Veal sweetbreads sauté, served with a red wine mushroom sauce on a potato cake Tarte Chaude au Foie Gras et Munster Géromé Very thin puff pastry tart baked with sweet onions, munster from Alsace and grilled foie gras Les Huitres en Terrine aux Echalottes Confites au Vin Rouge Cold terrine of Wellfleet oysters poached in oyster broth, red wine preserved shallots Creme de tomate au Basilic à l'Orange Servie Froide...

When John Kerry, John Edwards and their wives descended on a Newburgh, New York, Wendys on Friday for a 'lite" lunch with the common people, it was all just a photo op. Team Kerry Edwards had already ordered their real lunches - consisting of five star gourmet food from a tony local restaurant - with instructions to have the haute cuisine ready for pick-up after the top Democrats ditched Wendy's. "A member of the Kerry advance team called Nikola’s Restaurant at the Newburgh Yacht Club the night before and ordered 19 five-star lunches to go that would be picked up...

MAHLBERG, Germany — You could say that Wolfram Siebeck's almost single-handed campaign to transform the way Germans eat began with his discovery that shallots were unavailable in Germany. This was many years ago, in the 1960's. At the time, Mr. Siebeck, who is a sort of German version of Martha Stewart (before Ms. Stewart's legal troubles and without her expansion into a conglomerate), was a culture critic for the weekly Die Zeit and used to attend film festivals in Italy and France. "There I discovered haute cuisine," Mr. Siebeck said, "and I wondered why there is nothing like this in...

KASSEL - Prosecutors Thursday said they have filed a murder indictment against one of two gay men who met in an Internet chat room, where it allegedly was agreed that one of them would kill and devour the other. And in a stunning new development, prosecutors in Kassel said they are broadening the investigation to include some 430 other persons believed to have been involved in the Internet gay cannibalism chat room that led to the death of a 42-year-old man in March 2001. Prosecutors are convinced that the victim, a computer analyst from Berlin, agreed to be killed and...