The recipient of the best employee of the year and silver medallist for fruit flambe table cooking at the recent Food Hotel Malaysia 1997, Rapuzon's original idea was to make a flower vase out of old magazines.
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Whet your appetite with a sampling of last year's treats : chocolate bananas flambe, chocolate impastata stuffed crepes with white balsamic glossed raspberries, chocolate fondue, chocolate lover's mousse cup, and a lot more.
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Amid Greek statuettes bathed in fluorescent light and artificial palm trees, they can watch an erotic stage show and indulge in suckling pig for dlrs 240, pineapple flambe for dlrs 190 or wine at up to dlrs 995 a bottle.
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Writing in The Nation, under the headline " Icon Flambe, " they said : " What Child actually taught was a pseudo-French chef's cuisine, which Americans had neither the time nor ingredients nor skill to duplicate.
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"It's a 20 and 10 / Which we saute and julienne, " a waiter sings helpfully to two customers, " Then flambe the very instant they arrive / And the price is $ 87.95 ."
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These include two irregularly rotund, flambe-glaze stoneware vases by the French Art Nouveau ceramicist Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat; two exceptionally lustrous examples of modern lusterware by Zsolnay, the Hungarian manufacturer; and that commanding, if somewhat dreadful, Wedgwood swan vase.
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The glazes devised by William Howson Taylor included misty souffl?glazes, ice crystal effect glazes-' crystalline', lustre glazes resembling metallic finishes, and the most highly regarded of all, sang de boeuf and Flambe glazes which produced a blood red effect.
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Most of us know what happens next, and we start peeking around the corner for each familiar stunt _ the surly bush flambe, the staff-cum-cobra, the wacky plagues _ checking them off in anticipation of the granddaddy of all magic tricks, ripping the Red Sea asunder.
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We eat tuna tartar, salmon rillette, flambe shrimp, mussels in white wine sauce, steamed clams, cold salmon with lime sauce, marlin soup, crab omelet, mousseline of stone bass, red and yellow tuna in rock salt, dolphin puffs, swordfish terrine, and Japanese fish soup.
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In fact, unlike last year, when Eric Chavez's innocent " It's about time someone other than the Yankees won it " remark was turned into bulletin-board flambe by the New Yorks, the A's were careful not to poke the cage of the defending champions too forcefully.
