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Rainbow Room loses pot of gold

Filed under: Arts and Culture, Food and Drink, North America, United States, News

New York's Rainbow Room is about to close its Rainbow Grill restaurant. Perched atop 30 Rockefeller Center, the restaurant has accumulated a reputation for dazzling views and putting you on top of the world in as close to the literal sense as possible. This week, the restaurant suffered its own fall ... a 65-storey fall, to be exact.

The Rainbow Grill, which serves pricey Italian-style food, will shut down on January 12, 2009. The bar, banquet facilities and weekend dinner-dancing will live on, however. The twin culprits are the general economic decline and a dispute with its landlord, the "pirates" at Tishman Speyer.

Of course, everyone in Manhattan is entitled to a second act, and the Rainbow Room may come back. The Cipriani family, which owns the landmark restaurant, calls the decision temporary.

[Via MSNBC and Gawker]

Rainbow Room loses pot of gold originally appeared on Gadling on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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Stolmen’s in the kitchen…
Stolmen’s in the kitchen…, originally uploaded by fredlet. (with Dinah… hee) So a few changes to the Stolmen plan. We gained a few inches on the left side, so we didn’t need to angle the short shelves… actually I was pleased about that as I was just a wee bit concerned that my dining area was going to [...]

Simple Fare

Lentils. I like them. I like cooking them. They feel like ... a large
nutty grain of whole wheat, but in a legume’s body. Okay, so maybe that
doesn’t make them sound too appealing, but trust me, they are quite
good. And as an added bonus, they absorb the flavor of anything added
to the soup pot.

Sadly,
Mr. Handsome does not like them. Oh, he’ll eat them and say thank you,
but they’re not His Thing. And it’s not that I’m cooking them wrong
because when he was hiking in the Himalayan mountains back before we
were married, he lived off of lentils, the real deal, and he still
didn’t care for them all that much.

I don’t know what his problem is.

Mr.
Handsome’s Nepali adventures are on the forefront of my mind because
just the other day I showed another National Geographic movie to the
kids called Himalayan River Run.
The kids were fascinated with the Sherpas and how they carried their
tremendous loads on their backs that they secured with a cloth that
looped up over their foreheads. I told them how Papa had a Sherpa when
he was hiking, and after the movie we pulled out his photo album and
looked at the pictures. They weren’t all that exciting, just a lot of
pictures of mountains and of Papa with a nasty case of bedhead, looking
really tired.

Now Miss Becca Boo has taken to tying a red scarf around her head. She looks rakish, like she belongs with Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Carribean, not at all like a little Sherpa.

But
back to lentils. That Mr. Handsome doesn’t like them in no means
prevents me from cooking them. I’m not a very sympathetic wife, and
besides, I figure if I don’t cook them now, then my children may never
learn to enjoy them either, and I absolutely must prevent that
deplorable state of affairs from ever becoming a reality.

My
favorite way to cook lentils is in a soup, and the good news is that
Mr. Handsome actually does enjoy this soup. (I think it’s mainly the
curried dahls at which he directs his turned-up nose.) It’s simple
fare: a pot of lentils simmered with stewed tomatoes, browned sausage,
garlic, onion, and some marjoram. I served it, along with cheesy chunky
broccoli soup (and salad and sourdough breads), the night that the relatives descended.
It’s a good company soup because it can be made ahead of time,
refrigerated or frozen, and simply reheated when the time comes to dish
up.

The only trick to remember about lentils is that you want
them to be perfectly soft before you add any salt or tomatoes (or wine
or lemon juice) because the cooking process is slowed almost to a halt
once the acidic ingredients are added, and then you’re left with
crunchy lentils, which is not a good thing at all.

Lentil-Sausage Soup
Adapted from More-With-Less Cookbook

1 pound sausage
2 medium onions, chopped
1 garlic clove, minced
2 cups lentils
2-3 teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon marjoram
1-2 quarts stewed tomatoes

Brown the sausage with the onions and garlic and set aside.

In
a soup pot combine the lentils with about a quart of water. Bring to a
boil and then reduce the head to a simmer and let the lentils cook for
about 20-30 minutes. Check occasionally, and if they are getting too
dry, add another cup of water.

Once the lentils are soft, add
the sausage mixture and one quart of tomatoes. If you want the soup to
be soupier, add another quart of tomatoes. Add the marjoram and salt
and some black pepper. Bring the soup to a boil and then simmer for
another 15 minutes. Adjust seasonings and serve.

Note:
The soup that is pictured above (not the same soup I served to the
relatives) also has some wild rice added to it—I was a little short on
lentils so I threw in a couple handfuls of the rice to bulk it up.

Kanye West
One of the most successful hip-hop artists and personalities of the past decade, Chi-town producer/emcee Kanye West may be hip-hop's most unlikely superstar. After Jay-Z's The Blueprint dropped in 2001 with West productions "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" and "Never Change," his patented chipmunk soul (sped-up soul loops for choruses; dramatic, sweeping strings) was ubiquitous and ushered in a new era of polished hip-hop formalism that was a nice rejoinder to the bombast of Timbaland and the Neptunes. Many doubted that West could make the transition from producer to emcee -- his flow was a bit rigid compared to his Roc-A-Fella counterparts, and his middle-class perspective was the antithesis of their crack raps -- but on his 2004 debut, College Dropout, West delivered one of the most satisfying and thematically complex pop albums of the decade, alternately accepting and rejecting rap's conspicuous consumerism and reconciling his middle-class, Judeo-Christian upbringing with hip-hop's more nihilistic archetypes. Subsequent albums (2005's Late Registration and 2007's Graduation) have documented West's accession from quirky underdog to king of the hip-hop world. - Sam Chennault

Assorted Links 1/4/09

Wingsuit Flying from Ali on Vimeo.

• The Best and Worst of Gmail Labs
• Transparent Duct Tape Is Like Something Out Of Star Trek IV
• Museum of Communism
• The AIG Story: A Brief Introduction
• Senate Has No Right Not to Seat Roland Burris, Despite Blagojevich
• Cory Booker - Wikipedia
• London's Mayor Issues a Challenge to Gordon Brown
• VoIP: Dead or Alive?
• Gangs rule over the most crime-free America in decades
• For the Supreme Court, Tradition Is on Tap at Inaugural
• Optimate 4 Battery Charger is loaded with features and lights, but is more better?

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Baby Corn and Chili Stir Fry

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Fine wine investors find losses hard to swallow after prices plummet
FINE wine prices have plummeted by up to 40% as the economic downturn and the fall in the value of the pound has spooked investors into offloading their stock.