Move over, Betty Crocker. Ina Garten wants a piece of your action.
So does King Arthur. And so do upstarts Sprinkles and Stonewall Kitchen. At the 33rd Winter Fancy Food Show, held in February in San Diego, it was clear that premium baking mixes for everything from scones and bundts to cupcakes and crepes are hitting their stride.
Imagine visiting Hawaii without ever putting on a bathing suit or going to the beach. That's exactly what I did during a recent visit when I meandered through verdant valleys and ancient calderas, moseyed down a precipitous seaside cliff and sauntered through thick ironwood forests that I never knew were part of Hawaii's tropical landscape.
Love may make the world go 'round, but chocolate chips eaten out of hand or baked up into something warm and gooey certainly help keep things spinning.
Paso Robles, known affectionately by the residents and devoted oenophiles simply as Paso, is California's undiscovered treasure, a region unto itself, a proud Americana showcase of bygone days when life was relaxed and less demanding, and most excellent, a soothing sanctuary for vacationers in the know.
Williams, AZ Who knew a train robbery could be so much fun? I didn't until I rode the Grand Canyon Railway from the Grand Canyon to Williams, Ariz., following in the footsteps of such notable passengers as Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Clark Gable, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates.
At the 1999 BCS title game in New Orleans, a Fortune 500 client of my company, TSE Sports & Entertainment, wanted to have a tailgate function for her top customers. Back then, the individual bowl games were just beginning to figure out how to accommodate the growing need for event hospitality.
The casino industry was forever changed in November 1989 when the Mirage opened its doors in Las Vegas. At a time when the Las Vegas Hilton was the world's largest hotel with 2,000 rooms, the Mirage checked in with almost 3,000 more than half again as large as anything on the planet. Why build such a large hotel? In my opinion, Steve Wynn was reinventing the casino-hotel a move that made the Mirage a destination in itself.
When you're planning a big party, nothing can get you more excited or more anxious than searching for a suitable location for the festivities. While it may be the most important decision youll have to make, you dont need to go chasing after a venue like a wild goose. Instead, I'd like to recommend a more level-headed approach to finding the perfect place.
Hotel-oriented, mixed-use developments are highly complex with horizontally and vertically integrated ownership and condominium declarations to facilitate future sales, restrictive covenants to control uses, and hotel operating and condominium management agreements. When co-developers are interjected into a transaction, the level of complexity increases geometrically.
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