GOOD TASTES.HALLOWEEN TREATS: With Halloween just around the corner, here are some of the treats you'll find at See's Candies See's Candies is a manufacturer and distributor of high quality candy, particularly chocolate, in the western United States. It was founded by Charles See and his mother Mary See in Los Angeles, California in 1921. The company is now headquartered in South San Francisco, California. this year. Many would make great hostess gifts or party favors - or special holiday treats for kids of all ages. Pick them up at local See's shops or order online at www.sees.com. --Halloween basket (pictured) - A festive black wire basket filled with a 1/2-pound box of truffles, a milk chocolate foil-wrapped jack-o'-lantern, a milk chocolate foil-wrapped ghost, a climber cane and a sprinkling of lollipops is $16.25. --Novelty witch - The season's favorite resin witch container (use it in a table centerpiece) is filled with 5.9 ounces milk chocolate foil-wrapped pumpkin balls (no more little pops) for $6.95 each. --Chocolate walnut pumpkins - Chocolate butter cream Butter cream or buttercream or mock cream is a type of icing used inside cakes, as a coating, and as decoration. In its simplest form, it is made by creaming butter with icing sugar, although other fats can be used, such as margarine. and walnuts shaped into a round, coated with chocolate and decorated with an orange icing face. Each 2-ounce individually wrapped candy is $2. --Chocolate balls - Milk chocolate balls Chocolate balls are a spherical confection made of or dipped into chocolate. Other ingredients may include peanut butter. See also:
--Climber canes - Each 1.05-ounce orange-flavored black-, white- and orange-striped sugar stick topped with an edible-frosting black cat or witch or white ghost is $1.20. --Chocolate jack-o'-lanterns - Each 2-ounce foil-wrapped chocolate treat is $1.85. Chocolate-covered marshamallow jack-o'-lanterns decorated with orange icing are also available - each 2-ounce candy is $1.80. -Natalie Haughton FREE SMOOTHIE smooth·ie also smooth·y n. pl. smooth·ies Slang 1. A person regarded as being assured and artfully ingratiating in manner. 2. A smooth-tongued person. : Jamba Juice Jamba Juice is a high-end chain of smoothie restaurants headquartered in Emeryville, California with over 640 locations operating in 21 states, the District of Columbia and the Bahamas. Over 400 locations are company-owned, with the remainder being franchised. recently introduced a new, smaller-size, 16-ounce smoothie. To celebrate the arrival of the newest addition, stop by any Jamba Juice location from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday for a 16-ounce smoothie in the flavor of your choice. It's free with a $1 donation to the California Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. Association. For addresses of Jamba Juice locations near you, go online to www.jambajuice.com. -N.H. LIMITED COFFEE OFFERINGS: Starbucks is once again making available limited quantities of special coffee beans through the middle of November or while quantities last. The two offerings include a Special Reserve 2003 single origin Estate Coffee - Sumatra Lintong Lake Tawar for $16.95 per pound bag - and a Special Reserve 2003 blend made up of coffees from Guatemala and Kenya for $15.95. We sampled the blend - and found it pleasant, but complex - without the burnt flavor we usually associate with Starbucks coffees. Pick up the coffees at your local Starbucks store. - N.H. DINING OUT The gravelly grav·el·ly adj. 1. Of, full of, or covered with rock fragments or pebbles: a gravelly beach. 2. Having a harsh rasping sound: a gravelly voice. deep voice of onetime Hollywood Spago maitre d' Bernard Erpicum is now welcoming diners at the new edition of show-biz haunt Le Dome, only a few steps up the Sunset Strip from his old post. Le Dome, renovated under the supervision of restaurant designer supreme Dodd Mitchell and now sporting a neo-Tuscan look, reopened this past weekend with chef-partner Sam Marvin heading the kitchen. Marvin, who stepped into the local culinary spotlight with his Modada restaurant several years ago then moved to a Las Vegas Italian dining spot, holds over some of the original 1977 Le Dome opening items like steak tartare
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dish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" ($29), serves up a whole roasted Italian sea bass ($34) and cooks poultry legs (duck, Cornish hen, squab squab baby or fledgling pigeon. ) tandoori-style ($27). He offers both a dry-aged New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ($32) and bone-in filet mignon ($30) steaks, and pan roasts live Maine lobster ($55). Le Dome at 8720 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, with previous owner Eddie Kerkhofs returning as a partner to entrepreneurs Ronald Tutor and David Bergstein, is currently open for dinners only from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Daily (except Sunday) lunch service is scheduled to begin Oct. 28. Information and reservations: (310) 659-6919. - Larry Lipson CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) Halloween basket (2) no caption (16-ounce smoothie) (3) no caption (Special Reserve 2003 coffee from Starbucks) |
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